The Zurau Aphorisms
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I have never been here before: my breath comes differently, the sun is outshone by a star beside it.
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Like a path in autumn: no sooner is it cleared than it is once again littered with fallen leaves.
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Differences in the view one can have of things, for instance of an apple: the view of a little boy who has to crane his neck in order even to glimpse the apple on the table, and the view of the master of the house, who takes the apple and freely hands it to the person sitting at table with him.
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A. is very puffed up, he thinks he is far advanced in goodness since, obviously as an object that is ever seductive, he feels himself exposed to ever more temptations from directions hitherto unknown to him.
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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle.
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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are right, for nothing has yet happened.
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From a certain point on, there is no more turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
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The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked along.
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