Sometimes I believe that evil is everything, and that good is only a beautiful desire for evil.
Quotes from Voces — Antonio Porchia
1886–1968 Argentina
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Among the superficial, if you are not one of them, one of them has to lead you by the hand.
Cuando no creo en nada, no quisiera encontrarme contigo, cuando no crees en nada.
Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.
You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.
Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.
Si me dijeran que he huerto o que no he nacido, no dejaría de pensarlo.
Lo importante y lo no importante no son iguales sólo en sus comienzos.
Si no nos dieran nada quienes no nos deben nada, !pobres de nosotros!
Dios mío, casi no he creído nunca en ti, pero siempre te he amado.
Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.
Te ayudaré a venir si vienes y a no venir si no vienes.
Cuando ya nada me quede, no pediré más nada.
Almost without words, you’ve come to this world, which understands nothing without words.
I always search for some light and always at night and never illuminated by any light.
Almost always is it a the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.