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No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, cathedral or caveWe pass forever, craving form that...more

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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

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He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the ...more

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An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. The reali...more

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It was shameless how life made fun of one; it was a joke, a cause for weeping! Either one lived and let one's senses play, drank full at the primitive...more

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life ...more

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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

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...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything th...more

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even mo...more

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You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

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An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his wayforward, no matter where it led. The realiz...more

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There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with anim...more

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He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as a...more

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Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the u...more

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One knew nothing. One lived and walked about on the earth or rode through the forests, and so many things looked at one with such challenge and promis...more