We have no reason
to show death admiration, love or hate;
his mask of feigned tragic lament gives us
(On Hearing Of A Death)
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My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.
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For what I want to say to you is this:
my efforts shall be like a driving force,
quite without anger, without timidness
as little children show their love for you.
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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
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