Antonio Porchia quotes - page 4

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. (Antonio Porchia)
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. View quote
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. View quote
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The fear of separation is all that unites. View quote
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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything. View quote
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My heaviness comes from the heights. View quote
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. View quote
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Sometimes at night, I turn on the light so as not to see. View quote
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I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received. View quote
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One who says the truth says hardly anything. View quote
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I have come one step away from everything and here I stay, far from everything, one step away. (Antonio Porchia)
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. View quote
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. View quote
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The shadows: some hide, others reveal. View quote
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Everything is a bit of darkness, even light itself. View quote
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing. View quote
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A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. View quote
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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. View quote
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It won't be able to wait for you any longer. Because you have arrived. View quote
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. View quote
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Everything that I carry tied up in me, can be found anywhere else, freed. (Antonio Porchia)
Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow. View quote
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be! View quote
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When everything is done, the mornings are sad. View quote
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I have hardly touched the clay and I am made of it. View quote
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