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