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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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Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and w...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 tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke an hour later, he felt fresh and calm as th...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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Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

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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