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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

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In a way, I was safe writing

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One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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I am free and that is why I am lost.

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

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Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

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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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True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

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Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

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Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.

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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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