{"id":2344,"date":"2023-05-05T07:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/octavio-paz-on-love-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T07:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:35:18","slug":"octavio-paz-on-love-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/octavio-paz-on-love-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Octavio Paz on Love \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We love to forget ourselves, but also to remember what we are: mortal creatures lustful of meaning, radiant with life, eternally alone and eternally longing for home \u2014 home in ourselves and home in each other. \u201cI hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other,\u201d Rilke wrote in his exquisite reckoning with the interplay of freedom and togetherness in love<\/a> \u2014 Rilke, who also knew that \u201cdeath is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The delicate, eternal, life-magnifying relationship between love and death, between union and freedom, is what Nobel laureate Octavio Paz<\/strong> (March 31, 1914\u2013April 19, 1998) explores throughout his timeless book The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>), composed in the final years of his long life.<\/p>\n

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