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"Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?"
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"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."
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"People's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
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"If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself."
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"All answers that you seek can only be found within."
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"That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church."
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"When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird's eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect."
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"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues."
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"Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown."
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"I take showers to think."
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"If you feel that you are going without go within."
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
War
"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
Literature
"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
Politics
"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."
Man
"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."
Sensitivity
"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
Blood
"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."
Victory
"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
Life
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
Experience
"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
Religion
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