“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
― A Way of Being
― A Way of Being
“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”
― The Courage to Be
― The Courage to Be
“you are alone, Chinaski, and below the stage the seats are empty. the theatre is dark. why do you keep acting? what a bad habit.”
― Come On In!: New Poems
― Come On In!: New Poems
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