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A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has th...more

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How dreadful boredom is — how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression, no truer one, for like is recognized only by like… I lie prostrate, in...more

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For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought

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No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

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But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking ...more

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Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking a...more

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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees b...more

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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easie...more

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What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which yo...more

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My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere that I love you. Oh! Does it weary yo...more

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Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means something through the interpretation love gi...more

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I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that h...more

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If I could forget you! Is my love then a work of memory? Even if time expunged everything from its tablets, expunged even memory itself, my relation t...more

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I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that h...more

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How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no longer able to seize it? Most people have a limi...more