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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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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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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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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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My bits of time play with eternity.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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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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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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