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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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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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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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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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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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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 am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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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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