Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are...

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are...

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same,...

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same,...

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

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.

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.

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.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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