“Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.”

—  Antonio Porchia

Nada no es solamente nada. Es también nuestra cárcel.
Voces (1943)

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Nada no es solamente nada. Es también nuestra cárcel.

Voces (1943)

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

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