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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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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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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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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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