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A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

A large heart can be filled with very little.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

My bits of time play with eternity.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

Night is a world lit by itself.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.