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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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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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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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

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One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

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In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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Evil is whatever distracts.

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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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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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

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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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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 is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

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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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Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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