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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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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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Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

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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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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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The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

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In a way, I was safe writing

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There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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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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But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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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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