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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

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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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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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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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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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The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

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Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

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We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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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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In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

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Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

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

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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

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Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

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