From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/quotes/s-28182-233095
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.