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The confession of one man humbles all.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Humbles
Confession
Men

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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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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.
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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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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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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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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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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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I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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