“What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.”
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) Swedish physician
“I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.”
Te ayudaré a venir si vienes y a no venir si no vienes.
Voces (1943)
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