It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
PABLO NERUDAIf nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
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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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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
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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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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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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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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 night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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