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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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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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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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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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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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