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Night is a world lit by itself.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
World
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Night

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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
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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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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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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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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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