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- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…
- The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the…
- I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
- I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility…
- The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive…
- All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could…
- Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
- Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
- Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
- I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in…
- The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to…
- And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that…
- Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from…
- We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like…
- Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not…
- So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
- I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my…
- Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going,…
- German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes…
- I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically…
- I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete…
- What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
- Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what…
- ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we…
- What if I slept little more and forgot about this all nonsense.
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