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“At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“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.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Rašytojas, poetas savo kūrybai pajėgų ir medžiagos semia iš dviejų šaltinių: iš savo asmenybės ir iš aplinkinio pasaulio. Bet reikia, kad asmenybė būtų stipri ir vieninga, o pasaulis, gyvenimas, tikrovė jaučiama tiesiogiai ir gyvai.”
― Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, Altorių šešėly

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka