My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Octavio PazSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio PazThe North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.
Octavio Paz