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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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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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