Anna Patrick's Blog, page 130
July 17, 2016
"Vladimir Nabokov, teaching his students how to read Kafka, pointed out to them that the insect into..."
“Vladimir Nabokov, teaching his students how to read Kafka, pointed out to them that the insect into which Gregor Samsa is transformed is in fact a winged beetle, an insect that carries its wings under its armored back, and that if Gregor had only discovered them, he would have been able to escape. And then Nabokov added: ‘Many a Dick and a Jane grow up like Gregor, unaware that they too have wings and can fly.”
- Vladimir Nabokov on Kafka’s Metamorphosis
(via kafkaesque-world)
- Vladimir Nabokov on Kafka’s Metamorphosis
(via kafkaesque-world)
July 16, 2016
"You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you."
“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
- Haruki Murakami
- Haruki Murakami
"You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery: enjoy it, embrace it, discard it… and..."
“You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery: enjoy it, embrace it, discard it… and proceed.”
- Claire Colburn, Elizabethtown (via thatkindofwoman)
- Claire Colburn, Elizabethtown (via thatkindofwoman)
I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
July 15, 2016
"You blossom under kindness, don’t you? Like a rose."
“You blossom under kindness, don’t you? Like a rose.”
- Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel’s Inferno
- Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel’s Inferno
July 14, 2016
"Everything that is strong hurts. I like to feel the strength of life, its dark violences, its..."
“Everything that is strong hurts. I like to feel the strength of life, its dark violences, its instincts, its climaxes.”
- Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)
- Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)
