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We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

— Ernst Jünger The Glass Bees (1957)

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At all times, in all places, and in every heart, human fear is the same: it is the fear of destruction, the fear of death.

The Forest Passage (1951)

The teaching of the forest is as ancient as human history, and even older.

The Forest Passage (1951)

The numbers of those wanting to abandon ship is growing, among them sharp minds and sound spirits.

The Forest Passage (1951)

Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!

On Pain (1934)

Better a short life, full of deeds and glory, than a long life without substance.

On Pain (1934)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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