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Paths are made by walking

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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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We need the books that affect us like a disaster

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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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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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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