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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Poet
Writer
Suicides
Suicide
Friends
Truth

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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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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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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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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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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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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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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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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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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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