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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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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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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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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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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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