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Octavio Paz Quotes

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: mexican
Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

Alone World Wall Opening Transparent

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Andrew Greeley

Learning Woman Me Writing Bad Say

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

John Mulaney

School High School Friends Know High

Every time I touch the ball against Juve, it goes in.

Mauro Icardi

Time Touch Ball Against Every Goes

I like going after work back to Brooklyn because it is so much more relaxed and chill.

Anna Ewers

Work Chill Back Brooklyn More Going

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Amy Jackson

Good Song Why Film Get Role

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.

John Piper

Mother Relationship Child Black Help

I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together.

Tori Spelling

Good Together Protein Make Carbs

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

Robert Crippen

Back NASA Military Up Us Laboratory

The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird.

Rob Reiner

Time King Me Fake Weird Hands

It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself.

Julia Holter

Work Yourself People Doing Nice

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

Janet Yellen

People Me Problem Find Judgment

I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.

Deborah K. Ross

Women I Am Political Way Office