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At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its broad waves,Then I free myself whollyFrom all activi...more

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And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with...more

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I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activiti...more

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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

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For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. To be sure, he suffered from dread of many things, ...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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We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know tha...more

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They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in...more

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Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing, open to every whim of fate,...more

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Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

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He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or kn...more