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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.

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

Franz Kafka

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Franz Kafka

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

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

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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

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

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

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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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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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

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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.

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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

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

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

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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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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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Writers speak stench.

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

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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

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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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

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

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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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.

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Evil is whatever distracts.

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