I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
- Antonio Porchia
Bad, My Own, Been, Disciple
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
- Antonio Porchia
Alike, Set, Any, Departure
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
- Antonio Porchia
Broken, Most, Closely, Bind
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
- Antonio Porchia
Alone, World, His, Phantoms
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
- Antonio Porchia
Take, Amount, Too, Exact
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
- Antonio Porchia
Deal, Given, Would, Great Deal
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
- Antonio Porchia
Rest, Infancy, Eternal, Brevity
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
- Antonio Porchia
Knowing, Itself, Filled, Close
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
- Antonio Porchia
Children, Leads, Whom, Hand
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
- Antonio Porchia
Own, See, Mourning, Tear
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
- Antonio Porchia
Hands, Keep, Had, Sake
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
- Antonio Porchia
Me, Poverty, Lacks, Complete
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
- Antonio Porchia
Never, Always, Same, They Say
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
- Antonio Porchia
Cannot, Which, His, Domesticated
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
- Antonio Porchia
Think, Will, Highest, Raise
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
- Antonio Porchia
Only, Arrived, Certainties, Foot
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
- Antonio Porchia
Fly, See, Away, Wings
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
- Antonio Porchia
Love, Nothing, Everything, Room
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
- Antonio Porchia
Always, Himself, Level, Finds
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
- Antonio Porchia
Nature, Tomorrow, Because, Flowers
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
- Antonio Porchia
Never, Lives, Too, Costs
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
- Antonio Porchia
I Am, Looking, Stop, Wanting
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
- Antonio Porchia
Hope, Becoming, Lives, Memory
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
- Antonio Porchia
Own, Will, Say, Road
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