When I look for my existence, I do not look for it in myself.
Quotes from Voces — Antonio Porchia
1886–1968 Argentina
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Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.
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Treat me as you should treat me, not as I should be treated.
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I talk thinking that I shouldn't talk: that is how I talk.
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My name, far more than it names me, reminds me of my name.
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My neighbor's poverty makes me feel poor; my own does not.
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When I have ceased to exist, I won’t ever have existed.
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I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
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I have hardly touched the clay and I am made of it.
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It was always easier for me to love than to praise.
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My dead go on suffering in me the pain of living.
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I hold up what I know with what I do not know.
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All I know does not even help me to know it.
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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
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From my silence, only my voice is missing.
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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It is easier to pick it up fallen than not to let it fall. Let it fall and you will pick it up.
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In the eternal dream, eternity is the same as an instant. Maybe I will come back in an instant.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.