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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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Rest
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Brevity
Infancy
Extreme
Extremes
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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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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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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