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Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
Approximate author period: c. 1956 AD · modern
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- Octavio Paz
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- Approximate author period: c. 1956 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Octavio Paz: life dates 1914 to 1998. Wikidata Q46739, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46739 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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