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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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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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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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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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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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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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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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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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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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Night is a world lit by itself.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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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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