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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Poet
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World

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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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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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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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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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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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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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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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