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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

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The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

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One reads in order to ask questions

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

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