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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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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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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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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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My bits of time play with eternity.
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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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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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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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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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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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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.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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