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Believing means liberating th...

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

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Art is for the artist is only...

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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. . . The books we need are t...

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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The Kafka paradox: art depend...

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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I need solitude for my writin...

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeab...

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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What I write is different fro...

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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I am away from home and must ...

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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When one has once accepted an...

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

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One of the most effective mea...

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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Alas," said the mouse, "the w...

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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Man cannot live without a con...

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

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It isn't necessary that you l...

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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Beyond a certain point there ...

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

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Should I be grateful or shoul...

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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There has never been a time i...

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

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When one has once accepted an...

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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Picasso only registers the de...

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

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No," said the priest, "you do...

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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