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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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

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the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

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

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

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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

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

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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

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