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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

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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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My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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I like to make use of what I know

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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

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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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