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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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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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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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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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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.

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It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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

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I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

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

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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

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You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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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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