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Octavio Paz


Born
in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
March 31, 1914

Died
April 19, 1998

Genre
Poetry, Nonfiction, Essays

Influences
Rubén Darío, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Alfonso Reyes, Gerardo Diego, Stép ...more


Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.") ...more

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In Light Of India
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El arco y la lira
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“Deserve your dream.”
― octavio paz
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“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
― Octavio Paz
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“Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.”
― Octavio Paz , The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
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