Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

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It is really a miracle how you have managed to be so miserable, so thirsty, when it is raining all over. You have really done the impossible! Everywhere it is light and you live in darkness. Death is nowhere and you are constantly dying; life is a benediction and you are in hell.

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Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.

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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?

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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

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How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

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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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