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" The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. "

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" Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. "

" It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. "

" By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. "

" 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. "

" Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. "

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" Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. "

" The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. "

" 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. "

" Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. "

" 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. "

" We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. "

" The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings. "

" My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. "

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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. "

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

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" Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. "

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" The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. "

" One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. "

" There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. "

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