“Death is a mirror which reflects the vain gesticulations of the living.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
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Famous Octavio Paz Quotes
Source: El Laberinto de la Soledad
“A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre
“Death is the mother of forms.”
Source: Selected poems