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 Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.  Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. It is wealth to be content. - Lao-Tzu The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious. It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are. Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. If we only knew the real value of a day. The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. 
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