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“That's okay. That's all right. He had treated life the way it should always be: long and short at the same time. He had tried so hard because he always felt guilty, but he also always felt hopeful. Naively hopeful. Foolishly so. But you had to be, he concluded, falling down into the snow, the wires in his legs smoking. You had to be.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Candelaria

“...for people take the conviction of the venerability of the dead together with them into the beyond and uphold it ten times as much from there.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“Whatever advantage the future has in size, the past compensates for in weight, and at their end the two are no longer distinguishable...”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“But really I could not look at her seriously either. For that would have meant that I loved her.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923