Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
PABLO NERUDAThe books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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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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So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
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Love is a clash of lightnings
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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
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Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.
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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
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In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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I’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
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