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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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Suicide
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Suicides

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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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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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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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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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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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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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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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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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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 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 truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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