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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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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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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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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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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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