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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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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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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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