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The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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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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Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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

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The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

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

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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