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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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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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I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am the sea by night in a stormthe sea shouting that a...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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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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I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended fo...more

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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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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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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to desp...more

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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

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You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

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Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children l...more

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That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or...more