If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall …

Pablo Neruda
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If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2009). The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan, p.107, New Directions Publishing
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If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living. ✨ Pablo Neruda (2009). The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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