- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers speak stench.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religions get lost as people do.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
- Clarity
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- Nov 07, 2020
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
- Hiding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
- Deceives
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Avail
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Rather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is whatever distracts.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
- Evaporates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Certain Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
- Crack
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- Nov 07, 2020
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
- Complacency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
- Nov 07, 2020
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
- Nov 07, 2020
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020