Quotes from Voces — Antonio Porchia
1886–1968 Argentina
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Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
If I were to give you life, what else could I give you?
Sometimes it as though I were in hell and I do not grieve. I do not find anything to grieve over.
Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.
When I am asleep, I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.
In no one did I find who I should be like. And I stayed like that: like no one.
My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.
Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
Yes, I am preoccupied with myself. But I've forgotten what that means.
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
My body separates me from all beings and all things. Only my body.
My self has been moving away from me. Today it is my farthest you.
I’ve abandoned the beggarly need to live. I live without it.
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