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Alas,' said the mouse, 'the ...

Alas,' said the mouse, 'the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.' 'You only need to change your direction,' said the cat, and ate it up.

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If the literature we are readi...

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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A lawyer is a person who write...

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a 'brief.'

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I am in chains. Don't touch my...

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

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Better to have, and not need, ...

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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The person I am in the company...

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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The truth is always an abyss. ...

The truth is always an abyss. One must Ђ' as in a swimming pool Ђ' dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again Ђ' laughing and fighting for breath Ђ' to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

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There is a destination but no ...

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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I think we ought to read only ...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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For we are like tree trunks in...

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

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The true way goes over a rope ...

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

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I do not speak as I think, I d...

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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Life's splendor forever lies i...

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

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I am free and that is why I am...

I am free and that is why I am lost.

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I am a cage, in search of a bi...

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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You too have weapons....

You too have weapons.

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Sometimes I'd like to stuff al...

Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

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From a real antagonist one gai...

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

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The state we find ourselves in...

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

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Even the merest gesture is hol...

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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