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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
Suicides
Suicide
Friends
Truth

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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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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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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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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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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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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 can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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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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