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"i have read the first chapter and it’s the kind of book where you have to read every line slowly and maybe even aloud, because the sound of it and the process of every line unfolding is so beautiful and touching, i absolutely love it. „How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison which is apt indeed. It passes from the tongue to the…“" — Nov 09, 2025 02:24AM
"i have read the first chapter and it’s the kind of book where you have to read every line slowly and maybe even aloud, because the sound of it and the process of every line unfolding is so beautiful and touching, i absolutely love it. „How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison which is apt indeed. It passes from the tongue to the…“" — Nov 09, 2025 02:24AM
Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.
“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.”
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“Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist, dass Du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle.
An Milena Jesenska (14. September 1920)”
― Letters to Milena
An Milena Jesenska (14. September 1920)”
― Letters to Milena
“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“But in creative fields, a degree is a prerequisite for nothing.”
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
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