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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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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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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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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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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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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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