“The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.”

— Antonio Porchia

Las pequeñeces son lo eterno, y lo demás. todo lo demás, lo breve, lo muy breve
Voces (1943)

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Las pequeñeces son lo eterno, y lo demás, todo lo demás, lo breve, lo muy breve.

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

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