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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
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Suicide
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Truth
Suicides

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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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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 keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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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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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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