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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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

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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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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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He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

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

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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