He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

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• Antonio Porchia:

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

• Antonio Porchia:

  He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

• Antonio Porchia:

  Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

• Antonio Porchia:

  He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

• Antonio Porchia:

  You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

• Antonio Porchia:

  The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

• Antonio Porchia:

  That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

• Antonio Porchia:

  The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

• Antonio Porchia:

  Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

• Antonio Porchia:

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