Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
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Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
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Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles.
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Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
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