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“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
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“I am poppies in the field
Red and cold
I am sleeping alone
and
I am light
I am light
I am light”
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Red and cold
I am sleeping alone
and
I am light
I am light
I am light”
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