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- I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.…
- Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.
- Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept…
- 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…
- The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
- The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with…
- Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and…
- One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…
- I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us…
- If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the…
- One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer…
- 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…
- it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but…
- The man in ecstasy and the man drowningboth throw up their arms. The first does it to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with…
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