"April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets."
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"The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end."
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"If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars."
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"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law."
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"The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite."
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"The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs."
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"Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake."
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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
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"Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him."
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"It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world."
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"When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word."
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"God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands."
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"Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious."
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"Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord."
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"I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea."
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"O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again"
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"True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth."
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"You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts."
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"A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is."
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"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."
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