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If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Give
Fanatic
Wells
Fanatics
Well
Received
Giving
Cause
Life
Willing
Probably
Causes
Given

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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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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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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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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
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The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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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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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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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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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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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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