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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.

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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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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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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, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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