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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Poet
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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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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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