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The meaning of life is that it stops. The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. 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. This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me. Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects. Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
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