I'm nothing,
I'll always be nothing.
I can't even wish to be something.
Aside from that, I've got all the world's dreams inside me.

Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.

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I am nothing. Never shall be anything. Cannot will to be anything. This apart, I have in me all the dreams of the world. | trans. Jonathan Griffin, in Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1974), p. 111 | I am not nothing. I will never be nothing. I cannot ever want to be nothing. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world. | In Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 649 | I am nothing. I shall never be anything. I cannot even wish to be anything. Apart from this, I have within me all the dreams of the world.

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