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It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

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„Something in our soul has a far more violent repugnance for true attention than the flesh has for bodily fatigue. This something is much more closely connected with evil than is the flesh. That is why every time that we really concentrate our attention, we destroy the evil in ourselves.”

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Twenty minutes of concentrated, untired attention is in­ finitely better than three hours of the kind of frowning ap­ plication that leads us to say with a sense of duty done: "I have worked well!"

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I am an instrument already rotten. I am too worn out. And even if I believed in the possibility of God's consenting to repair the mutila­tions of my nature, I could not bring myself to ask it of him.

It pleases God perhaps to choose the most worthless objects for this purpose. I am obliged to tell my­ self these things so as not to be afraid of my own thoughts.

„my greatest desire is to lose not only all will but all personal being.” tak