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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men,…

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As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.…
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the…
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside…
As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall…
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death…
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my…
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the…
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable…
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

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