“I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“she does not suspect how much reason I have for deprecating all sympathy.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
“A piece like a segment has been cut out of the back of his head. The sun looks in and the whole world with it. It makes him nervous, it distracts him from his work, and moreover it irritates him that he should be the very one excluded from the spectacle.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
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