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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
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Things
Brevity
Infancy
Extreme
Extremes
Eternal
Rest
Little

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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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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 your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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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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My bits of time play with eternity.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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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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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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