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They're talking about things o...

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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In a way, I was safe writing...

In a way, I was safe writing

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What's happened to me,' he tho...

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

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My doubts stand in a circle ar...

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

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I hate everything that does no...

I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

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I can't feel a thing; All mour...

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

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He who does not answer the que...

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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The Fathers of the Church were...

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

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I can once more carry on a con...

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

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Only the moment counts. It det...

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

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German is my mother tongue and...

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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It's impossible to defend ones...

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

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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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The whole visible world is per...

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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We live in an age which is so ...

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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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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Torment yourself as little as ...

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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I am always trying to convey s...

I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

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Youth is happy because it has ...

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

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A book should serve as an axe ...

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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