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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.
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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill
All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
The truth is always an abyss.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
