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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
Tear
Tears
Looking
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Life

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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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