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All language is but a poor translation.

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Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

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

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Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

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Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

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If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

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Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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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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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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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

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