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.

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He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

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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.

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There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

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As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

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