Frasi di Antonio Porchia

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“Trattami come devi trattarmi, non come merito di essere trattato.”

“Eravamo io e il mare. Il mare era solo ed anch'io lo ero. Uno dei due mancava.”

“Mio padre, andandosene, regalò mezzo secolo alla mia infanzia.”

“Le piccole cose sono l'eternità, e il resto, tutto il resto, il breve, il molto breve.”

“Chi mi tiene per un filo non è forte; forte è il filo.”

“Se non alzi gli occhi, crederai di essere il punto più alto.”

“L'uomo giudica tutto dal minuto presente, senza comprendere che giudica solo un minuto: il minuto presente.”

“Ogni cosa esiste grazie al vuoto che la circonda.”

“Chi perdona tutto ha dovuto perdonarsi tutto.”

“L'uomo non va da nessuna parte. Tutto viene verso l'uomo, come il domani.”

“Alcune cose diventano tanto nostre che le dimentichiamo.”

“La mia povertà non è totale: manco io.”

“A volte, di notte, accendo una luce, per non vedere.”

“Si vive con la speranza di arrivare ad essere un ricordo.”

“Da tutte le parti il mio lato è il sinistro. Sono nato da quel lato.”

“Chi ha visto vuotarsi tutto, quasi sa di cosa si riempie tutto.”

“Situato in qualche lontana nebulosa faccio ciò che faccio, perché l'universale equilibrio di cui sono parte non perda l'equilibrio.”

“La verità ha ben pochi amici e i ben pochi amici che ha sono suicidi.”

“Sei quanto hanno bisogno di te, non quanto sei.”

“Prima di percorrere il mio cammino io ero il mio cammino.”

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

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

“The killer of souls does not kill a hundred souls. He kills his own soul a hundred times.”

“You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.”

“I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.”

“The dream that doesn’t feed on dream disappears.”

“If you could escape your sufferings and did so, where would you go outside of them?”

“When I throw away what I don't want, it will fall within reach.”

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

“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.”

“In no one did I find who I should be like. And I stayed like that: like no one.”

“Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.”

“My voice tells me: “That’s how it all is.” And the echo of my voice tells me: “That’s how you are.””

“That which came before me and that which comes after me have almost come together, they have almost become one thing, they have have almost been left without me.”

“A big heart can be filled with very little.”

“My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.”

“The heart is an infinity of massive chains, chaining little handfuls of air.”

“It is easier to pick it up fallen than not to let it fall. Let it fall and you will pick it up.”

“Treat me as you should treat me, not as I should be treated.”

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

“You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.”

“Certainties are arrived at only on foot.”

“The deep, seen with depth, is surface.”

“If I didn’t think the sun looked at me a little, I wouldn’t look at it.”

“When everything is done, the mornings are sad.”

“Knowing how to die costs a lifetime.”

“I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.”

“One who says the truth says hardly anything.”

“I know I had everything, but not because I had it. I know because afterwards I had nothing else.”