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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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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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I carry the bars within me.

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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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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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it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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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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