"Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul?……" — Pablo Neruda
"Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?"
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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 crave your mouth, your voice, your hair....
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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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