Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today…

Octavio Paz
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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today. ✨ Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). Selected Poems, p.26, New Directions Publishing
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