Antonio Porchia (1886 – 1968)
Argentinian writer and poet.
All that I have lost I find at every step and remember that I have lost it.
Not using faults does not mean one does not have them.
With the words I haven’t said I’ve disarmed my weapons.
Sometimes I think that everything I see does not exist. Because everything I see is what I saw, and everything I saw does not exist.
One man alone is too much for one man alone.
The blind man carries a star on his shoulders.
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!
Everything is a bit of darkness, even light itself.
No, I won’t come in. Because if I come in no one will be there.
How many, tired of lying, commit suicide into any truth.
If I were told that I have died or that I haven't been born, I wouldn't stop thinking about it.
In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.
When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
Nothing that is complete breathes.
And I’ll go on erasing the faulty words I put in my whole, even if my whole is left without words.
He always gave himself to everyone without following anyone. And in that world, where almost everyone follows everyone without giving themselves to anyone.
That in a man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
I began my comedy as its only actor, and I come to the end of it as its only spectator.
My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.