Antonio Porchia Quotes

#1. As long as we thing we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.

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#2. When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

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#3. That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

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#4. Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

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#5. I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

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#6. When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

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#7. Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

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#8. Near me nothing but distances.

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#9. Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

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#10. Before I travelled my road I was my road.

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#11. What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

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#12. Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

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#13. I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

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#14. Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

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#15. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.

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#16. Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

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#17. When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

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#18. One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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#19. The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

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#20. 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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#21. Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

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#22. They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

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#23. I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.

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#24. You do not see the river of tears because it lack one tear of your own.

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#25. 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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#26. I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

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#27. The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

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#28. He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

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#29. Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

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#30. He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

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#31. Nothing that is complete breathes

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#32. If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

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#33. One learns not to need by needing.

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#34. A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

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#35. The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

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#36. 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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#37. No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.

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#38. I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

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#39. We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

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#40. Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

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#41. A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

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#42. My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

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#43. In full light we are not even a shadow.

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#44. Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

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#45. Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

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#46. Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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#47. My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

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#48. God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

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#49. When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

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#50. A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

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#51. You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

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#52. I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

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#53. When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

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#54. The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

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#55. Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

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#56. Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.

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#57. 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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#58. A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

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#59. He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

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#60. We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

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#61. You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

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#62. You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

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#63. 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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#64. We become aware of the void as we fill it.

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#65. In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.

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#66. He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

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#67. He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

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#68. I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

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#69. The fear of separation is all that unites.

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#70. 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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#71. Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

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#72. He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

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#73. Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

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#74. And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

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#75. Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

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#76. Night is a world lit by itself.

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#77. Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

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#78. My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

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#79. Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

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#80. Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing

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#81. When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

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#82. He who does not know how to create should not know.

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#83. The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

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#84. There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

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#85. My bits of time play with eternity.

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#86. A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?

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#87. Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

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#88. It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

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#89. I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.

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#90. Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

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#91. Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

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#92. 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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#93. More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

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#94. He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

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#95. When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

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#96. The condemnation of an error is another error.

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#97. If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

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#98. Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

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#99. In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

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#100. I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

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