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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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 have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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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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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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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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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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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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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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