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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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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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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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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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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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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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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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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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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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