“That which came before me and that which comes after me have almost come together, they have almost become one thing, they have have almost been left without me.”
Lo antes que yo y lo después que yo casi se han unido, casi son uno solo, casi se han quedado sin yo.
Voces (1943)
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Lo antes que yo y lo después que yo casi se han unido, casi son uno solo, casi se han quedado sin yo.
Voces (1943)
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Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
No. 66.
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
“I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.”
“One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.”
Journal entry (10 December 1801)
Context: Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVII
Context: What I have seen is going to disappear, since I shall do nothing with it. I am like a mother the fruit of whose womb will perish after it has been born.
What matter? I have heard the annunciation of whatever finer things are to come. Through me has passed, without staying me in my course, the Word which does not lie, and which, said over again, will satisfy.
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964)
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: One of the things that amazed the earliest explorers, almost without exception, was the hospitality with which Indians received them. When the Indians later learned that the Whites posed a threat, their attitude changed, but the initial contacts were idyllic.... Hospitality and sharing were characteristic of all Indian societies.