{"id":638,"date":"2007-08-11T06:34:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/octavio-paz-on-solitude.html"},"modified":"2007-08-11T06:36:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T11:36:25","slug":"octavio-paz-on-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/octavio-paz-on-solitude.html","title":{"rendered":"Octavio Paz on Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"158\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/lone-flower.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"One lone flower\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Perhaps the most famous work of Mexican poet and <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/1990\/paz-bio.html\">Nobel Prize winner<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/645\">Octavio Paz<\/a> is <i>El Laberinto de la Soledad<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/080215042X\/jcotsweb-20\">The Labrynth of Solitude<\/a>. &nbsp;This is how he begins his final chapter. &nbsp;Though by no means a &quot;Christian&quot; writer, I think he hits upon something with a ring of truth here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>Solitude &#8211; the feeling and knowledge that one is alone, alienated from the world and oneself &#8211; is not an exclusively Mexican characteristic. &nbsp;All men, at some moment in their lives, feel themselves to be alone. &nbsp;And they are. &nbsp;To live is to be separated from what we were in order to approach what we are going to be in the mysterious future. &nbsp;Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. &nbsp;Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. &nbsp;His nature &#8211; if that word can be used in reference to man, who has &quot;invented&quot; himself by saying &quot;No&quot; to nature &#8211; consists in his longing to realize himself in another. &nbsp;Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. &nbsp;Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most famous work of Mexican poet and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz is El Laberinto de la Soledad, The Labrynth of Solitude. &nbsp;This is how he begins his final chapter. &nbsp;Though by no means a &quot;Christian&quot; writer, I think he hits upon something with a ring of truth here&#8230; Solitude &#8211; the feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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