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Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

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Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live amon...more

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Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

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If somewhere deep within me arises some essenceof having been a child, one I never experienced,perhaps the purest childness of my childhood,I don’t wa...more

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Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

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Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And everything conspires to keep quiet...more

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Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis once, completely, even if only once:to have been ...more

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Art is childhood.

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Wishes are memories coming from our future!

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Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them...more

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Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn t...more

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For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of thei...more

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What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours – that is what one must ...more

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books...more