Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
PABLO NERUDAIf nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
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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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He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.
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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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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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In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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We are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
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So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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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 have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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