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German is my mother tongue an...

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

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This perversion of the truth,...

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

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We were created in order to l...

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

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My job is unbearable to me be...

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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Everything is deception: seek...

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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Anyone who believes cannot ex...

Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

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I made the remark that I don'...

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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One of the first signs of the...

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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Leop­ards break in­to the tem...

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

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We photograph things in order...

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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We are sinful not merely becau...

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.

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I, however, cannot force mysel...

I, however, cannot force myself to use 'meat drugs' to cheat on my loneliness.

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Man cannot live without a cont...

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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No matter how much you keep en...

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won't see a thing.'.

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Anything that has real and las...

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

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But questions that don't answe...

But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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The nonexistent is whatever we...

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

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I won't give up the diary agai...

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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If you find someone who makes ...

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

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Everything you say is boring a...

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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