"For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger."
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"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep."
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"A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
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"Remembrance is a form of meeting."
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"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires."
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"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."
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"And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
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"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
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"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."
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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
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"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."
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"And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."
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"The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable."
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"Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it."
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"Your house is your larger body."
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"When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God."
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"To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."
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"The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea."
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"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite."
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