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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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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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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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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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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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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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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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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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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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