“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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