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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
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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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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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
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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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If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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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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You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
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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 are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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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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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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