“How many, tired of lying, commit suicide into any truth.”

— Antonio Porchia

Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.
Voces (1943)

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Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.

Voces (1943)

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

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