“I know that you have nothing. That is why I ask you for everything. So that you will have everything.”
Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
Voces (1943)
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Sé que no tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
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Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
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The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: It is true I have not told you everything. Why should I? No Author ever does.... With Felix Kennaston — or, if you prefer it so, with Horvendile, — rests safe this secret and peculiar knowledge as to how the life of Manuel may yet repair to it's first home after some seven centuries of exile. Thus will the traveller return — by and by — to the place of his starting; the legend of the second coming of the Redeemer will be justified, in, at all events, my lesser world; and the tale to Manuel's life will have come again, as it did once beside the pool of Haranton, full circle.
Primetime interview (Jan 2004)
