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Little by little, and also in great leaps,
Life happened to me...

— Pablo Neruda October Fullness (1964)

Poco a poco y también mucho a mucho
me sucedió la vida...

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Love is so short and forgetting is so long.

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I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

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The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind. In this way the song will not have been sung in vain.

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

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