The Labyrinth of solitude : life and thought in Mexico

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by  Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998

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The Labyrinth of Solitude

The
Labyrinth
of Solitude
Life and Thought in Mexico
by Octavio Paz
Translated by
Lysander Kemp
GROVE PRESS, INC. NEW YORK
EVERGREEN BOOKS LTD. LONDON
Copyright © 1961 by Grove Press, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Originally published in 1950 by Cuademos Ameri¬
canos, Mexico, and revised and expanded in 1959 for
the second edition published by the Fondo de Cul-
tura Economica, Mexico, under the title El Laberinto
de la Sole dad.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-11777
Ninth printing
Manufactured in the United States of America
The other does not exist: this is rational faith, the incur¬
able belief of human reason. Identity = reality, as if, in
the end, everything must necessarily and absolutely be
one and the same. But the other refuses to disappear; it
subsists, it persists; it is the hard bone on which reason
breaks its teeth. Abel Martin, with a poetic faith as
human as rational faith, believed in the other, in “the
essential Heterogeneity of being,” in what might be
called the incurable otherness from which oneness must
always suffer.
—Antonio Machado