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" Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. "

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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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" Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. "

" The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. "

" How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. "

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" Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. "

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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. "

" Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. "

" Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. "

" Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. "

" Dread of night. Dread of not-night. "

" There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. "

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

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