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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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The point of view of art and that of life are different even in the artist himself. Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of...
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms. The first does it to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with th...
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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 e...
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The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our s...
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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
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In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
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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...
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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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 ...
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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
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