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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.
Antonio Porchia
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
Antonio Porchia
The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
Antonio Porchia
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
Antonio Porchia
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Antonio Porchia
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Antonio Porchia
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
Antonio Porchia
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
Antonio Porchia
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
Antonio Porchia
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Antonio Porchia
The fear of separation is all that unites.
Antonio Porchia
