A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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Evil is whatever distracts.