Paz

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    Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)