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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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The Labyrinth of Solitude a...
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4.09 avg rating — 15,087 ratings — published 1950 — 139 editions
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The Collected Poems, 1957-1987
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4.32 avg rating — 3,088 ratings — published 1991 — 17 editions
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The Double Flame: Love and ...
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4.15 avg rating — 1,845 ratings — published 1993 — 52 editions
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Piedra de Sol = Sunstone
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4.33 avg rating — 1,399 ratings — published 1957 — 41 editions
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o...
4.25 avg rating — 857 ratings — published 1982 — 29 editions
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In Light of India
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4.06 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions
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El arco y la lira
4.29 avg rating — 700 ratings — published 1956 — 47 editions
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Libertad bajo palabra
4.17 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1966 — 37 editions
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¿Águila o Sol?
4.11 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 1951 — 28 editions
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The Poems of Octavio Paz
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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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