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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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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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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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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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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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He who tells the truth says almost 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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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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