- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Beloved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Freedom Of Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't forget to love yourself.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- Footing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
- Fruitless
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
- Comfortably
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
- Chess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
- Freedom Of Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you label me you negate me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be that self which one truly is.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Cries
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020