“Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.”
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Famous Antonio Porchia Quotes
“Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.”
“Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.”
“The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.”
“If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.”
“We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.”
“Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.”
“That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.”
“God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.”
“If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.”
“You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.”
“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”
“The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.”
“When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.”
“My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.”
“Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.”
“I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.”
“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”
“When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.”
“Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.”
“Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.”
“Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.”
“The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.”
“He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.”
“He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.”
“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”
“No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.”