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

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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the...

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the...

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

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

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

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

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

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

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

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.