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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Little
Things
Brevity
Infancy
Extreme
Extremes
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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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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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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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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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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