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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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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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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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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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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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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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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 will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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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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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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