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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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