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

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

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

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

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

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

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