Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivi…

Pablo Neruda
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Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2015). The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, p.25, Macmillan
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Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2015). The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, p.25, Macmillan

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