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"“Life was to be grasped only in metaphor, and metaphor could express itself only in metaphor; the chain of metaphor was endless and death alone was without metaphor, death to which this chain reached, as though death, even though lying outside it, were its last link, and as though all metaphors had been shaped simply for the sake of death, in order to grasp its lack of metaphor despite all.."" — Nov 12, 2025 07:58AM
"“Life was to be grasped only in metaphor, and metaphor could express itself only in metaphor; the chain of metaphor was endless and death alone was without metaphor, death to which this chain reached, as though death, even though lying outside it, were its last link, and as though all metaphors had been shaped simply for the sake of death, in order to grasp its lack of metaphor despite all.."" — Nov 12, 2025 07:58AM
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
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“the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated during the first half.”
― Demons
― Demons
“He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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