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If for an instant God would forget that I was a cloth marionette, and he was to present me with a little piece of life, possibly I would not say everything I thought, but I would definitely think about everything I said. I would value things, not for what they are worth, but for what they mean. I would sleep little, and dream more, understanding that for each minute we close our eyes, we lose sixty seconds of light. I would go when everybody else is stopped, wake when when everybody else was sleeping. I would listen when everybody else was talking, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream!
If God were to give me a little piece of life, I would dress simply, lie face down in the sun, leaving not only my body uncovered, but also my soul. My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate out on ice, and wait for the sun to come out. I would paint a dream about stars of Van Gogh's on a poem of Benedetti's, and a song by Serrat would be the serenade that I offered to the Moon. I would water the roses with my tears, to feel the pain of their thorns, and the blood-red kiss of their petals...
My God, if I had a little piece of life... I would not let a single day pass without telling the people that I love - that I love them. I would convince every woman or man that they were my favourite and I would live in love with love.
To men I would prove how wrong they are to think that they cease to fall in love when they age, rather that they age when they stop falling in love! I would give a child wings, but then let him learn to fly on his own. I would teach the aged that death does not come with old age, but with forgetfulness.
I have learned so many things from you, mankind... I have learned that everyone wants to live on the summit of the mountain, without knowing that true happiness is in the way one climbs the crags. I have learned that when a newborn grips for the very first time, with his tiny hand, the finger of his father, he has him trapped forever. I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another when he is helping him get up.
I don't know...There are so many things I have learned from you, but they really won't do very much good, because when they put me away in that trunk, sadly, I will be dying."
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