“Storm sky in August. Gusts of hot wind. Black clouds. Yet in the East is a delicate, transparent band of blue sky. Impossible to look at it. Its presence is a torture for the eyes and for the soul, because beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”
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