“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.”
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“The great truth is that every man
is just a little boy in the hands of a woman”
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is just a little boy in the hands of a woman”
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