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In a way, I was safe writing

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The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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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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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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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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All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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Religions get lost as people do.

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And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

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

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

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