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Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.
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The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.
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In the parched path I have seen the good lizard (one drop of crocodile) meditating.
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The two elements the traveller first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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You have always been smart. You have always looked for the worst in people, and have been quick to notice when people are up to no good... But in the case of your children, you are blind.
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Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.
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I touched her sleeping breasts, and they opened to me suddenly like spikes of hyacinth.
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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
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Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.
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A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
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I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
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The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.
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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 of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child.
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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Federico García Lorca
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Born:
June 5, 1898
Died:
August 19, 1936
(aged 38)
Bio:
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.
Known for:
Blood Wedding (1933)
The House of Bernarda Alba
Yerma (1934)
Doña Rosita the Spinster
The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife
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