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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
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Friends
Truth
Suicides
Suicide

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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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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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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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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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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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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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My bits of time play with eternity.
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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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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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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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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 have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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