a little Octavio Paz late night reading

We don't ask for happiness, nor rest...but an instant, only an instant, of full life, in which the contrary meet. Life and death, time and eternity join. Blindly we know, that life and death are not but two contrary movements but complements of the same reality. Creation and destruction that meet in the act of Love; and during that fraction of a second, Man enters a more perfect state of being.