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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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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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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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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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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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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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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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