One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Quote by Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same,...

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same,...

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

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

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there...

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there...

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

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

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

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

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

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

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

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.

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

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the...

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the...

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

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

He who does not know how to create should not know.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

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

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

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

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