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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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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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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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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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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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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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