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The Seven Year Slip

by Ashley Poston (Goodreads Author)

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read in February 2025

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❀ maria ❀ said: " what does Ashley Poston put into her books? they are absolutely exquisite and they always leave me feeling warm and fuzy!! "

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"just as perfect as the first time I read this!!" — 15 hours, 3 min ago

Feb 27, 2025 07:21AM · see review

“Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”
― Kafka Franz, Diaries, 1910-1923

tags: artist-s-imagination, creative-imagination, creative-process, inner-world, world-building, writing

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“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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“But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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