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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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