“After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.”

—  Antonio Porchia

Después de tanto huir de las cosas hechas, me he encontrado yo mismo una cosa hecha. Y sigo huyendo de las cosas hechas.
Voces (1943)

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