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Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

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Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almo...more

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Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to y...more

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For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Ev...more

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I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on y...more

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In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spread...more

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If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as...more

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn int...more

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Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a...more

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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

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And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another wo...more