A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.

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

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

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

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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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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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God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

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If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

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