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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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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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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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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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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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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 your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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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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