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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
What is written is merely the dregs of experience.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.
Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.