Antonio Porchia Quotes

Italian Argentinian poet (1885–1968)

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Antonio Porchia (13 November 1886 – 9 November 1968) was an Italian-born Argentine writer. His sole book Voces ("Voices") is a collection of aphorisms.

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Cerca de mí no hay más que lejanías.

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

Te quireo como eres, pero no me digas cómo eres.

I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.

Estoy tan poco en mí, que lo que hacen de mí, casi no me interesa.

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

El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.

In full light we are not even a shadow.

En plena luz no somos ni una sombra.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

Todos los soles se esfuerzan en encender tu llama y un microbio la extingue.

El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

Hay dolores que han perdido la memoria y no recuerdan por qué son dolores.

Sometimes I think that everything I see does not exist. Because everything I see is what I saw, and everything I saw does not exist.