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“For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“A man doesn’t need to fly to the sun, he need only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him.”
― Letter to My Father
― Letter to My Father
“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions
“My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.”
― Letter to His Father
― Letter to His Father
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