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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
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
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Life
Tear
Tears

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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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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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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not 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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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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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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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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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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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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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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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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