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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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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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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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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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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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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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