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Learn this, son: in the new nest you have to leave an egg. When I aged you, you will learn to live, you will know that the children are leaving you, that they do not thank you for anything; They eat until your memory.

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Nothing can last forever; there is no memory, however intense, that does not fade.

It is a difficult thing to grow up knowing that the thing where we can hold on to take root is dead.

In my life there are many silences…In my writing, too.

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