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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 tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Antonio Porchia
When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Antonio Porchia
Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
Antonio Porchia
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
Antonio Porchia
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
Antonio Porchia
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
Antonio Porchia
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
Antonio Porchia
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Antonio Porchia
If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
Antonio Porchia
Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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