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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

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Don't forget to love yourself.

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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Once you label me you negate me.

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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

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