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Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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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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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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From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

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Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

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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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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

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What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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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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Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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