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It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

When you have discovered disappointment as the guide to yourself, you will be eager to learn how much you are disappointed about yourself: about

Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care it deserves.

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

When dictatorship becomes a fact, revolution becomes a right!

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

Loyalty ... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

Sleepless people were bound by a wordless solidarity.

Boundless openness is simply not possible. It is beyond our power. The loneliness of having to conceal, it also exists.

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us
what happens with the rest?

I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!