Antonio Porchia Self Quotations

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.