Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.
Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.
You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.
I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.
A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.
Writer speaks a stench.
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