When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.

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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

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Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

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There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

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I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

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Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

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And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

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