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For him who has seen the chaos, there is no more hiding, because he knows that the bottom sways and knows what this swaying means. He has seen the order and the disorder of the endless, he knows the unlawful laws. He knows the sea and can never forget it. The chaos is terrible: days full of lead, nights full of horror. - LS, p. 110

I am at the mercy of the sea, of the inchoate waves that are forever changing place. Their essence is movement and movement is their order. He who strives against waves is exposed to the arbitrary. - LS, p. 110

We say that it is this way, and it is. We build roads by going on. Our life is the truth that we seek. Only my life is the truth, the truth above all. We create the truth by living it. - LS, p. 110

You must remain calm, or you will disturb the others. It is night and the other people want to sleep. - LS, p. 110

We are in Hell. But of course, you haven't noticed it yet. - LS, p. 108

I too believe that I've completely lost myself. Am I really crazy? It's all terribly confusing. - LS, p. 108

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. - LS, p. 108

Have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? - LS, p. 108

In the inner world there is no explaining away, as little as you can explain away the sea in the outer world. You must finally understand your purpose in explaining away, namely to seek protection. - LS, p. 106

Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have devised the impossibility of immortality? You believe in your idols of words. The dead produce effects, that is sufficient. - LS, p. 106

Become accustomed to being alone with the dead. It is difficult, but this is precisely how you will discover the worth of your living companions. - LS, p. 106

I suffer my agony between two madmen. I enter the truth if I descend. - LS, p. 106

Do not look forward so much, but back and into yourself, so that you will not fail to hear the dead. - LS, p. 106

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