Nothing ends without breaking, because everything is endless.
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
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
Voces (1943)
Not everyone does evil, but everyone stands accused.
Voces (1943)
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
Voces (1943)
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
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He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing.
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Do not speak harshly of your misfortunes to anyone, for everyone is partly to blame.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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If you climb up step by step, you’ll always find yourself level with a step.
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The heart is an infinity of massive chains, chaining little handfuls of air.
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Man is weak and when he makes strength his profession he is even weaker.
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And if nothing is repeated in the same way, all things are last things.
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Some, in getting ahead of everyone, are winning themselves the desert.
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Man, when he realizes that he is an object of comedy, does not laugh.
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Everything that changes, where it changes, leaves behind it an abyss.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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All that can’t be is almost always a reproach against what can be.
Voces (1943)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.