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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.
Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.
I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.