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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Domesticated
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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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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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