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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!!" — 13 hours, 3 min ago

Feb 27, 2025 07:21AM · see review

“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don't, then everything is over with here, once and for all.”
― 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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“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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“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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