"The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life."

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Source : Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.90, University of Texas Press

Ruben Dario

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