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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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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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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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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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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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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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