Quotes from Voces — Antonio Porchia
1886–1968 Argentina
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The blind man carries a star on his shoulders.
The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold.
The soul of all is only the soul of each one.
One who says the truth says hardly anything.
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
One man alone is too much for one man alone.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
A big heart can be filled with very little.
The fear of separation is all that unites.
In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Si me olvidase de lo que no he sido, me olvidaría de mí.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
If you could escape your sufferings and did so, where would you go outside of them?
They’ll say you’re walking down the wrong path, if you’re walking down your path.
Those who do not find a fountain through which to pour their tears, do not cry.
A great deal that I no longer continue in myself continues there on its own.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.