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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

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There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

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Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

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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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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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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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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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