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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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Poet
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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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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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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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 have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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