“Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.”
Source: Moving Pictures
“And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.”
Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
Voces (1943)
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Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
Voces (1943)
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