“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
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“One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
“I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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