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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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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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Please — consider me a dream.

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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

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Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

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No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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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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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

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