Vittorio Matteo Corcos - Dreams, 1896

Vittorio Matteo Corcos - Dreams, 1896

12 January. “[…] but also partly because of the fear of betraying my self-perception. This fear is justified, for one should permit a self-perception to be established definitively in writing only when it can be done with the greatest completeness, with all the incidental consequences, as well as with entire truthfulness. For if this does not happen - […] - then what is written down will, in accordance with its own purpose and with the superior power of the established, replace what has been felt only vaguely in such a way that the real feeling will disappear while the worthlessness of what has been noted down will be recognized too late.”

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated January 12th 1911, featured in ‘Diaries’. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

Glimmering Water of a Setting Sun, Constantin Alexandrovitch Westchiloff

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems of E. M; “True Encounter,”

“My life here is just as if I were quite certain of a second life,”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated February 21st 1911, featured in ‘Diaries’. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

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