But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
He who never says "no" is no true man.
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
Man is, above all, he who creates.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
I am who I am and I have the need to be.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
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