Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

—Antonio Porchia

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About Antonio Porchia

Antonio Porchia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpɔrkja]; November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an Argentine poet.

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

—Antonio Porchia

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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

—Antonio Porchia

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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

—Antonio Porchia

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

—Antonio Porchia

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He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

—Antonio Porchia

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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

—E. M. Forster

I dare say anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshiped.

—Iris Murdoch

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In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness.… This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud.… I have the immense joy of being a member of a race in which God became incarnate.… There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

—Thomas Merton

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