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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

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In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

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Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Author

Born: July 2nd, 1877

Died: August 9th, 1962

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