“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“Memory, he added in a postscript, often strikes me as a kind of a dumbness. It makes one's head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds”
― The Emigrants
― The Emigrants
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but life begins again at the end of the page, and one realises that one has knew nothing whatsoever.”
― The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount
― The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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