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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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