"Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur,……" — Pablo Neruda
"Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light."
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247 Quotes by Pablo Neruda
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I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
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We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the…
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I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water,…
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