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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
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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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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