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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.