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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Noise
Silence
Everything
Thing

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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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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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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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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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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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