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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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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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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 those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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