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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

— Antonio Porchia Voces (1943)

Todos los soles se esfuerzan en encender tu llama y un microbio la extingue.

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Sometimes I believe that evil is everything, and that good is only a beautiful desire for evil.

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Among the superficial, if you are not one of them, one of them has to lead you by the hand.

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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

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Cuando no creo en nada, no quisiera encontrarme contigo, cuando no crees en nada.

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Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.

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