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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

— Pablo Neruda Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

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Love is so short and forgetting is so long.

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