Quotes by Antonio Porchia
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
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They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
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Before I travelled my road I was my road.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
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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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He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.
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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
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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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Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Nothing that is complete breathes.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
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Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
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When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
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He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
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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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There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
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A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.
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He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
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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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Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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