The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
PABLO NERUDAThere were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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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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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.
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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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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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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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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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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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