When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
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.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.