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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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My bits of time play with eternity.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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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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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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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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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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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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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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