- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
- Nov 07, 2020
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
- Disrupted
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
- Dashed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is lived, not taught.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is independence.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Deathly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
- Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020