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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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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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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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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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