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IF you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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WHAT you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
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I CANNOT choose the best.
The best chooses me.
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THAT I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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REST belongs to the work as the eyelids to the eyes.
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MAN is a born child, his power is the power of growth.
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DO not blame your food because you have no appetite.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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YOUR idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
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MAN does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it.
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LIFE is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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TINY grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under your tread.
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WE read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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MAN barricades against himself.
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LET life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
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IN death the many becomes one; in life the one becomes many.
Religion will be one when God is dead.
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IN darkness the One appears as uniform; in the light the One appears as manifold.
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DEATH’S stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
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THE grass-blade is worth of the great world where it grows.
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IF you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
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THE roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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TIME is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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THE world has opened its heart of light in the morning.
Come out, my heart, with thy love to meet it.
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THE world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.
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THE water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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A MIND all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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THE day, with the noise of this little earth, drowns the silence of all worlds.
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THE song feels the infinite in the air, the picture in the earth, the poem in the air and the earth;
For its words have meaning that walks and music that soars.
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LET me not put myself wrongly to my world and set it against me.
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GOD’s right hand is gentle, but terrible is his left hand.
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THE service of the fruit is precious, the service of the flower is sweet, but let my service be the service of the leaves in its shade of humble devotion.
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THE world does not leak because death is not a crack.
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THE fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
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SET bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.
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THIS life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship.
In death we reach the shore and go to our different worlds.
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MAN is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
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AROUND the sunny island of Life swells day and night death’s limitless song of the sea.
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DEATH belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
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WE live in this world when we love it.
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I SHALL die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.
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LOVE is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.
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GOD waits for man to regain his childhood in wisdom.
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LET me not shame thee, Father, who displayest thy glory in thy children.
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WE shall know some day that death can never rob us of that which our soul has gained, for her gains are one with herself.
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LET me live truly, my Lord, so that death to me become true.
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I HAVE suffered and despaired and known death and I am glad that I am in this great world.