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Octavio Paz Diplomat

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Mexico
  • Born: Mar 31, 1914
  • Died: Apr 19, 1998

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.