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The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.

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Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and golden,...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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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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Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedan...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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On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found … a swarm of … small, blue butterflies drinking th...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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If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You...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

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One thing, however, did become clear to him—why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him...more

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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to matu...more