A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
From Franz Kafka
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Religions get lost as people do.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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