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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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Please — consider me a dream.

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One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

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Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

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There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

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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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Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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I like to make use of what I know

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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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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

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