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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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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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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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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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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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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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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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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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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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