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He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Tells
Says
Almost
Truth
Nothing

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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
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Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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