# Octavio Paz's most famous quotes

"A world is born when two people kiss", "Tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are" and a fictitious free press: the most quoted lines of Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, from Sunstone, The Labyrinth of Solitude and his essays.

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- Apr 1, 2019 · futbolero_murcia
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## Top 13

1. **A world is born when two people kiss.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Sunstone" (1957).
2. **The Mexican's indifference to death is fed by his indifference to life.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950).
3. **Rhythm is not measure, it is a vision of the world.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Bow and the Lyre (1956).
4. **Without democracy, freedom is a chimera.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Collected in Luis Señor's Diccionario de citas (Espasa, 1997).
5. **Tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950).
6. **Dialogue is more than an agreement: it is a chord.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Bow and the Lyre (1956).
7. **Water talks endlessly and never repeats itself.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Line from his early poems (1935-1955).
8. **We are the playthings of time and its accidents: sickness and old age, which disfigure the body and lead the soul astray.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Double Flame (1993).
9. **In theory our newspapers can say what they want. In practice they say what they can.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Collected in El gran libro de las frases célebres, by Arturo Ortega (2013).
10. **Man is a political animal and a metaphysical animal. Being both, he is a poetic animal, a walking metaphor.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Collected in El gran libro de las frases célebres, by Arturo Ortega (2013).
11. **No people believes in its government. At most, peoples are resigned.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Collected in Un siglo de citas, by Josep Maria Albaigès (1997).
12. **The most dangerous human masses are those whose veins have been injected with the poison of fear... the fear of change.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Collected in Un siglo de citas, by Josep Maria Albaigès (1997).
13. **To name is to create, and to imagine is to be born.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Collected in Frases y citas célebres, by Bartra (Grijalbo).

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