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• "I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day."

• "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

• "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

• "Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."

• "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

• "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."

• "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."

• "When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

• "We are all special cases."

• "Truly fertile music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a music conducive to dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate reason."

• "To know oneself, one should assert oneself."

• "To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."

• "To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."

• "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

• "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

• "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

• "Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love."

• "If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

• "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

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