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Antonio Porchia (1886 – 1968)


Argentinian writer and poet.
Antonio Porchia
I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.
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Victims take pity on victims.
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My heaviness comes from the heights.




Porchia Antonio quotes
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
Porchia Antonio
They are like me, I tell myself. And in that way I protect myself against them. And in that way I protect myself against myself.
Antonio Porchia quotes
Almost without words, you’ve come to this world, which understands nothing without words.
Antonio Porchia
Pain doesn’t follow us; it walks up front.
Porchia Antonio quotes
I wanted to reach what was right on the right paths. And so I began to live mistaken.
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Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.
Porchia Antonio
You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which are perhaps your hands.
Antonio Porchia
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong, it calms me.




Antonio Porchia quotes
In no one did I find who I should be like. And I stayed like that: like no one.
Antonio Porchia
The fear of separation is all that unites.
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Every truth starts from the newly born. From what wasn’t there.
Porchia Antonio
Troubles also pass, as everything passes, without trouble.
Porchia Antonio quotes
It’s been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven’t come down.
Antonio Porchia
The love that is not all pain is not all love.
Antonio Porchia quotes
I do not want anything over again. Not even a mother.
Antonio Porchia
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.
Porchia Antonio
Anyone could annihilate the infinite in an instant.


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