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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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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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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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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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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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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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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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