Our century has been terrible—one of the saddest in universal history—but our lives have always been more or less the same. Private lives are not historical.


The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 42, Issue 119, Summer 1991

Octavio Paz Quotes

Our century has been terrible—one of the saddest in universal history—but our lives have always been more or less the same. Private lives are not ...

Our century has been terrible—one of the saddest in universal history—but our lives have always been more or less the same. Private lives are not ...

Our century has been terrible—one of the saddest in universal history—but our lives have always been more or less the same. Private lives are not ...

Our century has been terrible—one of the saddest in universal history—but our lives have always been more or less the same. Private lives are not ...