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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
