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

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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 only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

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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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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

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

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

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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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