“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
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“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
― The Castle
― The Castle
“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“Alles ist Alleinsein.”
― Little Man, What Now?
― Little Man, What Now?
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis
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