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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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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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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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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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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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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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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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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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