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

Quote by Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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