“Everyone thinks that their things are not like all the other things in the world, and that is why everyone keeps them.”

—  Antonio Porchia

Cada uno creo que sus cosas no son como todo las cosas de este mundo. Y es por ello que cada uno tiene sus cosas.
Voces (1943)

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

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