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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
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Sky
Made
Scarcely
Touched

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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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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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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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