Happiness is found not in the absence of struggle but in mea... - Octavio Paz

"Happiness is found not in the absence of struggle but in meaningful engagement with it."

Octavio Paz Happiness

Poet Essayist Mexican 1914–1998

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"The poet's task is to imagine that which does not exist."

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only partially succeed because we are all prisoners of our own consciousness."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."

"Man is a being who is trying to become."

"Babalú!"

"My greatest joy is making people smile."

"Laughter and love make a home."

"The best things in life are free."