“A dream was a house your brain made without your permission, precisely to preserve memories and experiences and wayward impulses for all eternity, even the dead ones that only caused you pain, the ones from which you most wanted to be free.”
― Grand Union
― Grand Union
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.”
― The Circular Ruins
― The Circular Ruins
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
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