SIGNS BY THE ROADSIDE

(Several examples)

From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

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It seems to me that if people knew how very difficult living was for me, they would more easily forgive me all the evil things that I did and all the good things that I missed to do and they might even feel sorry for me.

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I knew a man who succeeded in finding an evil word for everything he didn’t have and everything he didn’t understand.

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Being afraid of people means doing wrong to God. The fear of people might have its source in our former sin to God’s principle. A man with a living soul logically shouldn’t be afraid of people or anything human.

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In this society we all suffer, men and women alike, but the roles are divided in this way: When we suffer because of women, it is always because women are not the way we want them to be. When women suffer because of us, it is always because we are the way we are. But most importantly, we all suffer and torture ourselves very often, for a very long time, very cruelly and meaninglessly.

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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn’t, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

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Searching for what I need, and I don’t even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don’t have and I’ve been searching for.