Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life
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.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Vanity
Nothing that is complete breathes.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perfection
Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Time
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Truth
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Belief
You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Control
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: People
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective
Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: The Body
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life
Night is a world lit by itself.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Night
He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Belief
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Poverty
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Grief
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Certainty
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Kindness
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Honesty
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Light
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.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life, Follow
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Kindness
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Solitude
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery
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