Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
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The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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A ""modern"" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
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