“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”
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“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
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“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”
― The Grand Inquisitor
― The Grand Inquisitor
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