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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

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I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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Only the moment counts. It determines life.

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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

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