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“Loneliness is just space expanding around you. Trust uncertainty. Sadness is life holding you in its hands and changing you. Make solitude your home.”
― You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
― You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Perhaps my fellow humans whom the dream of life has ensnared may find in this tale an echo, may be summoned back by it to their true home; while free spirits of the high hills may find in the record of Brother Stone’s transformations, as in that older tale of the Migration of the Magic Mountain, a reflected light to quicken their own aspirations.”
― The Story of the Stone
― The Story of the Stone
“There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one.”
― Kindred
― Kindred
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