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"To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other."

"By the end of the day I felt that something within me had broken down irreparably; from then on, every morning I believed that would be the last morning I would get up; with every step I took, that I could not possibly take another; with every movement I made, that I would be incapable of making another; and yet for all that, for the time being, I still managed to accomplish it each and every time."

"What is your aim in philosophy? - To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."

"For the first time, I now somewhat regretted that I was unable to pray, if only a few sentences, in the language of the Jews."

"All the same, I thought, at least we were able to send him off to the labor camp, poor man, with memories of a nice day."

"The preferred geography of sin is 'the outside,' where the wrongdoing can happen unnoticed and unhindered."