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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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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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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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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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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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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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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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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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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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Night is a world lit by itself.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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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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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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