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Writers speak stench.

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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

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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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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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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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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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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There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

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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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April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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