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Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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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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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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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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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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