“There were things I couldn’t say; I could only write them. Because when I spoke, I thought; and when I wrote, I felt.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
“In meinem Innern ahnte ich, dass ich vom Weg abgekommen war. Das Problem war nur, dass ich nicht wusste, wann und wo. Ich wusste nicht mal mehr, von welchem Weg.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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