John Duncan
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“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
“Nothing at all is to be valued, but life should be sweet. You should not serve things; things should serve you.”
― The Instructions of Shuruppak
― The Instructions of Shuruppak
“anamnesis: the bringing to consciousness of forgotten things.”
― How to Be a Conservative
― How to Be a Conservative
“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.”
― St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
― St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
“The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.”
― Space is the Place
― Space is the Place
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