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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

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From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

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

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

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Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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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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Books are a narcotic.

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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