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Title: Octavio Paz


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Octavio Paz
  • Mexican Maestro

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Mexico
  • 3 times the size of Texas
  • 101 Million people
  • 89 Roman Catholic

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The life and times of Octavio Paz
  • Born in 1914 in Mexico City
  • Father and Grandfather were both political
    journalists
  • Was Mexicos ambassador to France in 1945 and
    India in 1962

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More news you can use about Paz
  • Taught at American Universities throughout the
    1970s - including Harvard
  • Never forgot his Mexican Heritage
  • Died on April 21, 1998
  • Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990

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Epitaph
Epitaph
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Paradox
An apparent contradiction in terms that somehow
holds a universal truth
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You have to be cruel to be kind
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