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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
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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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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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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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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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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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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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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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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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