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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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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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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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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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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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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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