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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 notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.

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A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

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He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

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If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

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Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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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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Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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