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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
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World
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Night

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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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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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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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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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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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