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And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

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Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

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It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

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This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

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The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

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Beauty will save the world

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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

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God is the pain of the fear of death

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If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

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You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

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I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.

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I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

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