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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
Made
Scarcely
Touched
Sky

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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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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 keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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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 bits of time play with eternity.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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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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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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