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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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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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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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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
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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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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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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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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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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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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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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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