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“With a self-satisfaction that I understand as much as I deplore, and which stands in magnificent contrast to the verdict of the world, he goes everywhere alone, pays no attention to girls, and yet will never lose his good humor.”
― Selected Short Stories
― Selected Short Stories
“december 27, 1911
An unhappy man who must remain childless is terribly locked into his misfortune. No hope of renewal, no help to wait for [...] this misfortune he has suffered could not be lost or even give birth to a good.”
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An unhappy man who must remain childless is terribly locked into his misfortune. No hope of renewal, no help to wait for [...] this misfortune he has suffered could not be lost or even give birth to a good.”
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“If I were ever able to write something large and whole, well shaped from beginning to end, then in the end the story would never be able to detach itself from me and it would be possible for me calmly and with open eyes, as a blood relation of a healthy story, to hear it read, but as it is every little piece of the story runs around homeless and drives me away from it in the opposite direction.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“December 9, 1911
But what is true for us is not true for the stranger. For if our letters are incapable of giving a satisfactory expression to our own feelings, we are forced to resort to expressions like "unspeakable" or even "so sad" or a "so beautiful" followed by a quickly crumbled sentence… we are rewarded by the faculty given to us of grasping the account of others with the quiet precision which, at least to this degree, we lack in our own letters.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
But what is true for us is not true for the stranger. For if our letters are incapable of giving a satisfactory expression to our own feelings, we are forced to resort to expressions like "unspeakable" or even "so sad" or a "so beautiful" followed by a quickly crumbled sentence… we are rewarded by the faculty given to us of grasping the account of others with the quiet precision which, at least to this degree, we lack in our own letters.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“Too late. The sweetness of sorrow and of love. To be smiled at by her in the boat. That was most beautiful of all. Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
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