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After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.

— Antonio Porchia Voces (1943)

Después de tanto huir de las cosas hechas, me he encontrado yo mismo una cosa hecha. Y sigo huyendo de las cosas hechas.

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