This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

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You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

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I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

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I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

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When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

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I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

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You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

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The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

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