"But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies."
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"This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain names, with so many sad labels, with so many pompous letters, with so much yours and mine, with so much signing of papers. I intend to confuse things, to unite them, make them new-born intermingle them, undress them, until the light of the world has the unity of the ocean, a generous wholeness, a fragrance alive and crackling."
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"And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed."
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"Love is the mystery of water and a star."
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"Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?"
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"What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?"
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"I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love."
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"Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew."
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"We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
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"Love! Love until the night collapses!"
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"The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement."
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"I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men."
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"In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave."
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"And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy."
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"And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table."
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"Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar."
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"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
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"The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence..."
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"To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things."
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"Without doubt I praise the wild excellence."
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