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by James Joyce

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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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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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“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

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“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
― Franz Kafka

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