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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
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Eternity
Bits
Play
Time

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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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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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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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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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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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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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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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