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“I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive”
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
“It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy—from lack of character.”
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
“It makes one's heart ache when one sees that a man has staked his soul upon some end, the hopeless imperfection and futility of which is immediately obvious to everyone but himself. But isn't this, after all, merely a matter of degree? Isn't the pathetic grandeur of human existence in some way bound up with the eternal disproportion in this world, where self delusion is necessary to life, between the honesty of the striving and the nullity of the result? That we all—every one of us—take ourselves seriously is not merely ridiculous.”
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
― Markings
― Markings
“That strange moment when a man's features are dissolved into the trembling shimmer on the surface of the wave, through which you peer into the depths without being able to see the bottom. You are tempted to dive in and to grasp - but the water cannot be grasped, and beneath its surface you cannot breathe. One step further and the relation is destroyed, reduced to terror and error: you imagine you are taking possession of a human being, but, in fact, you are losing him. In your attempt to break down the boundaries of a personality, you are building a new prison for yourself.”
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
― Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
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