Octavio Paz's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: A world is born when two people kiss. · The Mexican's indifference to death is fed by his indifference to life. · Rhythm is not measure, it is a vision of the world.. (Updated Apr 1, 2019.)
"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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 13
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A world is born when two people kiss.
Poem "Sunstone" (1957).
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The Mexican's indifference to death is fed by his indifference to life.
The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950).
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3
Rhythm is not measure, it is a vision of the world.
The Bow and the Lyre (1956).
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4
Without democracy, freedom is a chimera.
Collected in Luis Señor's Diccionario de citas (Espasa, 1997).
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Tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are.
The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950).
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Dialogue is more than an agreement: it is a chord.
The Bow and the Lyre (1956).
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7
Water talks endlessly and never repeats itself.
Line from his early poems (1935-1955).
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We are the playthings of time and its accidents: sickness and old age, which disfigure the body and lead the soul astray.
The Double Flame (1993).
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9
In theory our newspapers can say what they want. In practice they say what they can.
Collected in El gran libro de las frases célebres, by Arturo Ortega (2013).
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Man is a political animal and a metaphysical animal. Being both, he is a poetic animal, a walking metaphor.
Collected in El gran libro de las frases célebres, by Arturo Ortega (2013).
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No people believes in its government. At most, peoples are resigned.
Collected in Un siglo de citas, by Josep Maria Albaigès (1997).
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12
The most dangerous human masses are those whose veins have been injected with the poison of fear... the fear of change.
Collected in Un siglo de citas, by Josep Maria Albaigès (1997).
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To name is to create, and to imagine is to be born.
Collected in Frases y citas célebres, by Bartra (Grijalbo).
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