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

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

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For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

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

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