“In the eternal dream, eternity is the same as an instant. Maybe I will come back in an instant.”
En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
Voces (1943)
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En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
Voces (1943)
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Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
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Author's Forward, p. xxv
Thinking and Destiny (1946)
Context: From November of 1892 I passed through astonishing and crucial experiences, following which, in the spring of 1893, there occurred the most extraordinary event of my life. I had crossed 14th Street at 4th Avenue, in New York City. Cars and people were hurrying by. While stepping up to the northeast corner curbstone, Light, greater than that of myriads of suns opened in the center of my head. In that instant or point, eternities were apprehended. There was no time. Distance and dimensions were not in evidence.
“Instant acceptance of an idea is as self-defeating as instant rejection.”
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 163.
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XIII: The Beginning and the End; 3. The Supreme Moment and After (p. 166)