All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.

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The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.

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Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.

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Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

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The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.

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Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.

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Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.

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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...

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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

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Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

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