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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. . . 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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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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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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The limited circle is pure. ...

The limited circle is pure.

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Written kisses don't reach th...

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

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Psychology is the description...

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

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Life's splendor forever lies ...

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 have hardly anything in com...

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

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Two tasks at the beginning of...

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

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You, who can't do anything, t...

You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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They did not know what we can...

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

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Why do we complain about the ...

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

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