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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and tea...more

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Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

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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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But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

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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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Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

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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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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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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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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

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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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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