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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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