Crime Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”

Federico Garcia Lorca

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“Here I want to see those men of hard voice. Those that break horses and dominate rivers; those men of sonorous skeleton who sing…

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The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

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I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds oflambs, the…

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“La poesía no quiere adeptos, quiere amantes.”

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The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There,…

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