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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Scarcely
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Sky
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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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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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