For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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