Octavio Paz's Quote - Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recour

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recour

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

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

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

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