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“People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
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and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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