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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
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“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
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“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
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[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
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“We shouldn’t put too much trust in happiness,” I said. “It comes and goes. And when we try and take hold of it, it slips away from us. It’s like a beautiful bird sitting on our balcony rail and flying off the moment we get too close. Do you expect a bird to sit on your shoulder and sing to the pair of us the way we’d like it to? /A Time for Errors (1992)”
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Abdelkader’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Abdelkader’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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289 friends
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