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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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

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

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