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

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The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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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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I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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No one can crave what truly harms him.

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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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Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

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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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I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

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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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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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