"Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask..."
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"Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him."
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"Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?"
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"I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood."
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"A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way."
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"Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence."
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"Confidence is the present tense of hope."
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"Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair."
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"Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it."
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"God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing"
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
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"Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward."
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"The door to happiness opens outward."
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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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"Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor."
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"The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself."
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"Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself."
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"Do it or don't do it - you will regret both."
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"The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control."
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"Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all."
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