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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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" In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. "

" 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. "

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

" Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. "

" In the fight between you and the world, back the world. "

" If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. "

" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "

" I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. "

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

" 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. "

" Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. "

" Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. "

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

" The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. "

" A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. "

" Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. "

" If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? "

" My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. "

" One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory. "

" 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. "

" By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. "

" 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. "

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

" Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. "