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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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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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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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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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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.
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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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