In no one did I find who I should be like.
And I stayed like that: like no one.

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

Treat me as you should treat me,
not as I should be treated.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings.
For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

Suffering is above, not below.
And everyone thinks that suffering is below.
And everyone wants to rise.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you.
And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

You will find the distance that separates you from them,
by joining them.

When the superficial wearies me,
it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

I will help you to approach if you approach,
and to keep away if you keep away.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

I saw a dead man. And I was little, little, little…
My God, what a great thing a dead man is!

The loss of a thing affects us
until we have lost it altogether.

My pieces of time play with eternity.

I am chained to the earth
to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

When I have nothing left, I will ask for no more.

Every toy has the right to break.

A large heart can be filled with very little.

He who makes a paradise of his bread
makes a hell of his hunger.

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