Quotes from Voces — Antonio Porchia
1886–1968 Argentina
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It is when I assent to nothing that I assent to all.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
The killer of souls does not kill a hundred souls. He kills his own soul a hundred times.
Don’t uncover, because there might be nothing. And nothing can’t be covered again.
The trees are alone, the clouds are alone. Everything is alone when I am alone.
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
The earth has what you raise off the earth. It has nothing more.
You tell yourself a dream, always. And when do you dream it?
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
My voice tells me: “That’s how it all is.” And the echo of my voice tells me: “That’s how you are.”
For a thousand years I have been asking myself, "what will I do now?" And still I need not answer.
And I’ll go on erasing the faulty words I put in my whole, even if my whole is left without words.
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
I do not agree with you, but if you do not agree with yourself either, then I agree with you.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering, I feel like I am a little cruel.
When I believe a stone is a stone and a cloud a cloud, I am in a state of unconsciousness.
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