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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!

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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

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Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

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A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

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The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of ...

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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

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I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

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I dream about that sometimes-and wake up screaming. With any luck they'll pass me over.

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