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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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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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Writers speak stench.

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They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

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Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

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So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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