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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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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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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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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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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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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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The confession of one man humbles all.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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