"These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination."
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"The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever."
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"I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing."
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"O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror."
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"It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower."
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"In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight."
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"Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting."
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"A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me."
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"The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart."
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"I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders."
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"Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."
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"For man is by nature an artist."
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"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."
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"Inspiration follows aspiration."
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"Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it."
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"Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders."
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"Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."
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"The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires."
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"The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth."
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"The movement of life has its rest in its own music."
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