Life
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He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this?
Nemesis
You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
The Dying Animal
That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier.
The Journey to the East
To deal with history (life) means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
The Glass Bead Game
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
Steppenwolf
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
Steppenwolf
His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
Steppenwolf
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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