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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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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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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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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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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
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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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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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