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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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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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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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