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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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How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into...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

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Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

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If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what it has missed. For it has failed to see whither ...more

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…[S]uddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly with little, hesitating, hearkening steps over th...more

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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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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hal...more

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Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

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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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And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your young existence! So great w...more

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Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength ...more