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“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Love me less, but love me for a long time”
― David Levithan

“I could not kill her, of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die.”
― Emily Dickinson

“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
― Franz Kafka

“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 iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
― Franz Kafka

“Surrender will always feel like dying, and yet it is the necessary path to liberation.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater