“I know that I went from the brief before to the eternal afterward of everything, but I do not know how.”

Sé que anduve de lo antes breve a lo después eterno de todas las cosas, pero no sé cómo.
Voces (1943)

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Que tuve todo lo sé, no por lo que tuve. Lo sé porque después no tuve más.
Voces (1943)

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“I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.”

H.P. Lovecraft book The Call of Cthulhu

Source: Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

“I know that I went from the brief before to the eternal afterward of everything, but I do not know how.”

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