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"I wasn’t from here anymore, from the common dream, but I didn’t enter my interior dream, either. I was in limbo, where you still live in the world, but without the reality-validating mechanism, as though you were walking on ice without hearing that voice that constantly whispers: Yes, keep going, the ice is solid, everything is okay, it will hold, nothing monstrous or illogical can happen..." May 09, 2023 06:39AM

 
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
Wittgenstein Ludwig

Thomas Mann
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

Theodore Roethke
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Franz Kafka
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
Franz Kafka

Robert Musil
“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
Robert Musil

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