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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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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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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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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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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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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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