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Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
Antonio Porchia
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
Antonio Porchia
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
My heaviness comes from the heights.
Antonio Porchia
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
Antonio Porchia
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
Antonio Porchia
Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
Antonio Porchia
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
Antonio Porchia
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
Antonio Porchia
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Antonio Porchia
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Antonio Porchia
I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
Antonio Porchia
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.
Antonio Porchia
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
Antonio Porchia
The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
Antonio Porchia
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
Antonio Porchia
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia
Night is a world lit by itself.
Antonio Porchia
