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Quotes by Antonio Porchia

“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

“They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”

“I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.”

“If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.”

“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”

“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”

“I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.”

I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

One learns not to need by needing.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

Near me nothing but distances.