"Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled."
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"Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down."
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"The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues."
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"Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence"
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"Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves."
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"I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't."
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"My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing."
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"Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human."
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"No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced."
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"My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else."
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"The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?"
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"What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?"
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"There is no way; we make the road by walking it."
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"The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being."
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"Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk"
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"There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world."
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"The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown."
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"Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't."
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"All our efforts must tend towards light."
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"And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us."
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