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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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

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The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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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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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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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.

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