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Octavio Paz


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

Died
April 19, 1998

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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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¿Águila o Sol?

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“Deserve your dream.”
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“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
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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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