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I hate judgments that only crush and don't transform.
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One who, alone, would be unconquerable. But he weakens himself with allegiances.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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Whenever the truth threatens, he hides behind a thought.
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I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.
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A mind, lean in its own language. In others, it gets fat.
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Montaigne the I-sayer. "I" as space, not as position.
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You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
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Everything you rejected and pushed aside--take it up again.
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Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.
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I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.
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The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.
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Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
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When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.
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