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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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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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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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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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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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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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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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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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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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