Antonio Porchia Quotes

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.

Antonio Porchia

• Exist
• Vanity
• Self-Display

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• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

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• The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

  

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• The Bee Gees no longer exist.

  

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• If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

  

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• I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

  

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• I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.

  

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• 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

  

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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

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• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

  

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• I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

  

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• You exist only in what you do.

  

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• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

  

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• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

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• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

  

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• Death does not exist.

  

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• Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.

  

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• When you mention Bieber, Lorde, One Direction, I want to be on that list. But at the same time, when you say Lil Uzi Vert, I want my name to pop up, too. I'm kinda in between both. I wanna bring them together and exist.

  

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• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

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• I never quit. I never quit.

  

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• 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.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Exist
  • Vanity
  • Self-Display