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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.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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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 truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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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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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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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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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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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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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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