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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Poet

Born: March 31st, 1914

Died: April 19th, 1998

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