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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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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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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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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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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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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.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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