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“What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being”

“‘Love is a battle?’ said Franz. ‘Well, I don’t feel at all like fighting.’ and he left”

“In other words, what had happened to the mother image he mentally linked with his wife?”

« For Franz a cemetery was an ugly dump of stones and bones »

“For there is nothing heavier than compassion”

“This novel was doomed from the start. All posture and no substance. Whether I write one page or a hun-dred, it amounts to the same thing. Though I knew this from the start. Call me optimistic. I assumed that in the course of writing, I would stumble upon some redeeming quality. I'm a hack, it's true. But who says that a hack job can't have some redeeming quality?”

“What part of what you see here is carefree?
If only you could understand the sadness of the ones who grow the delicate flowers of buffoonery, protecting them from but the slightest gust of wind and always on the verge of despair!”

“He was prepared to be unsatisfied by absolutely anything”

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