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

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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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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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The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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What is gayer than believing in a household god?

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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

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April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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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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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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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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