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.
PABLO NERUDAWe 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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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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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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I’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
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I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
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The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
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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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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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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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In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
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