Octavio Paz Quotes on Life
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat and one of the foremost Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Octavio Paz on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Octavio Paz:
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”
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“Deserve your dream.”
Merece lo que sueñas. -
Attributed to Octavio Paz:
“Love is the secret religion of those who have not lost faith in being.”
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“Death is a mirror which reflects the vain gesticulations of the living. The whole motley confusion of acts, occasions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.”
The Labyrinth of Solitude(1950) | Ch. 3: "The Day of the Dead", p. 54