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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Life
Shortens
Distances
Straight
Following
Distance
Lines
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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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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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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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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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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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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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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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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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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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