“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“It was the sea and I. And the sea was alone and I was alone. One of the two was missing.”
Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Voces (1943)
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