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“But after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it.”
― An Inspector Calls
― An Inspector Calls
“Today might be the day to grasp the chance to let your talent bloom. Maybe tomorrow, the day after, or next year...Maybe even when you're thirty...But if you think it'll never come, it probably never will.”
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“I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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