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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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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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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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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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