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My bits of time play with eternity.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Eternity
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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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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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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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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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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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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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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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