Voices

by Antonio Porchia translated by Michael Tweed

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The greater time erases what is written by the lesser time.

Antonio Porchia

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Man is made in such a way that he cannot be good, not even when he is good.

Antonio Porchia

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From life I know the life of nothing, from death, the death of everything.

Antonio Porchia

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As much as you are not loved, you love.

Antonio Porchia

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A star can be held in my hands, because its distance can be held in my hands.

Antonio Porchia

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“I usually began knowing much and ended up knowing nothing.” Antonio Porchia, (from an interview translated by Gonzalo Melchor)

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With me I do not carry the time of my things and my things; I carry only my things.

Antonio Porchia

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Small evils offend; big ones just hurt.

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A second thing, is almost always a reproach.

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My luck, when it isn’t good, prefers to be alone, with me.

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Love is born from two loves and dies in one.

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I still ask to be taught; but no longer by man, rather by those who learn nothing from man. (Antonio Porchia)

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Everything is movement, yet everything is like me, a fixed point.

Antonio Porchia

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No one fits totally inside another, not even a so-called child.

Antonio Porchia

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My biggest mistake is never less than my life.

Antonio Porchia

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What I built on clouds, I believe has fallen, yet I have never seen it fall; the opposite has happened with what I built on rocks.

Antonio Porchia

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I am not as they had made me. And that is best. For this way I will do less damage.

Antonio Porchia