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«What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| About:
Criticism,
Modernity
| Keywords:
distinguishes, Modern Age, modern art, The Modern Age
«Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
attempt, mutual, penetrated, penetrating, succeed, surrender
«Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.»
«Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| About:
Loneliness,
Men,
Solitude
| Keywords:
Human condition, profoundest, The Human Condition
«Deserve your dream.»
Author: Octavio Paz
«Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.»
Author: Octavio Paz
«Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.»
«We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.»
«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.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| Keywords:
Chambers, endlessly, mazes, mirrors, modern man, nightmare, repeated, The Maze, torture, wide-awake
«Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.»
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