“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
Se vive con la esperanza de llegar a ser un recuerdo.
Voces (1943)
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Se vive con la esperanza de llegar a ser un recuerdo.
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Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
Context: Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Give us leave to live! The eternity that is like an eternal present, without memory and without hope, is death. Thus do ideas exist in the God-Idea, but not thus do men live in the living God, in the God-Man.

Antithesis
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design
“Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.”
Source: Kitchen (1988)

(1834-1) (Vol.40) The Future, compare Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) I, 31
The Monthly Magazine

“The Day Before the Revolution” p. 270 (originally published in Galaxy, August 1974)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)