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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Everyone
Good

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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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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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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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