There was the other culture, a culture destroyed but still inside us alive. In this sense I knew, not only with my intellect, I knew with my senses and my body that the west was not the only civilisation.quote by: octavio paz (1914-1988)
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she is sufferingtaken from: paz's 1950 novel 'el laberinto de la soledad' ('the labyrinth of solitude')
about the quoted person:mexican essayist, writer and poet. Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. Paz began to write at an early age, and in 1937, he travelled to Valencia, Spain, to participate in the Second International Congress of Anti-Fascist Writers. In 1943, he travelled to the USA where he became immersed in Anglo-American Modernist poetry; two years later, he entered the Mexican diplomatic service and was sent to France, where he wrote his fundamental study of Mexican identity, The Labyrinth of Solitude, and actively participated in various activities and publications organized by the surrealists. In 1968, however, he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest against the government's bloodstained supression of the student demonstrations in Tlatelolco during the Olympic Games in Mexico. Paz's poetry has been collected in Poemas 1935-1975 (1981) and Collected Poems, 1957-1987 (1987).
A remarkable prose stylist, Paz has written a prolific body of essays, including several book-length studies, in poetics, literary and art criticism, as well as on Mexican history, politics and culture.
