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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
Aphorist
Poet
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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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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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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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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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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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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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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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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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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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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