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May I kiss you then? On this ...

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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One advantage in keeping a di...

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of s...

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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Test yourself on mankind. It ...

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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There are only two things. Tr...

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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You can hold yourself back fr...

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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We are sinful not only becaus...

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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By believing passionately in ...

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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The decisive moment in human ...

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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Anyone who keeps the ability ...

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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We are separated from God on ...

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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It is often safer to be in ch...

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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Suffering is the positive ele...

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

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No sooner said than done - so...

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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My peers, lately, have found ...

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

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A first sign of the beginning...

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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The indestructible is one: it...

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

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There is nothing besides a sp...

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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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.

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Hiding places there are innum...

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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