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God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!
- Happiness
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While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
- Own
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True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
- Look
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Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
- Darkness
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
- Hidden
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Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.
- Inspirational
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I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
- Freedom
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
- Madness
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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
- Death
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All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.
- Greatest
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One of man's greatest obligations is anger.
- Earth
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The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.
- God
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I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.
- Fight
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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
- Devil
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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.
- Dark
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We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
- Been
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My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
- Man
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In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.
- Love
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That part of Christ's nature which was profoundly human helps us to understand him and love him and to pursue his Passion as though it were our own. If he had not within him this warm human element, he would never be able to touch our hearts with such assurance and tenderness; he would not be able to become a model for our lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
- Divine
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
- Man
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