You have nothing and you would give me a world. I owe you a world.
Antonio Porchia Quotes
1886–1968 Argentina
Antonio Porchia (13 November 1886 – 9 November 1968) was an Italian-born Argentine writer. His sole book Voces ("Voices") is a collection of aphorisms.
- Argentina
- Poets
273 quotes
Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness.
Voces (1943)
What I say to myself - who says it? Who does he say it to?
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I do not want anything over again. Not even a mother.
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Out of a hundred years, a few moments were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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I have found the most beautiful side of the flowers in the fallen flowers.
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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
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My dignity asks him who does me no harm to do me no harm. Of him who harms me it asks nothing.
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Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.
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Ellos también son como yo, me digo. Y así me defiendo de ellos. Y así me defiendo de mí.
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When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
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Quien ama sabiendo por qué ama, no ama.
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El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.
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Pain lies above, not below. And they all think that pain is below. And they all want to rise.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.