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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
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Everyone

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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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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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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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