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

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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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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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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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Books are a narcotic.

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First impressions are always unreliable.

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

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It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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