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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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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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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 will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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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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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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