I Dont Repent Shedding Your Blood! He Cried. Beware, Old Man, Beware Of Your Dream, For I Have My Dream,

‘ “I don’t repent shedding your blood!” he cried. “Beware, old man, beware of your dream, for I have my dream, too. I curse you, and disown you altogether.” ‘

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from  “The Brothers Karamazov”, originally published in 1880. (translated by Constance Garnett)

“And now no sound came from the sea. It breathed softly as if it would draw that tender, joyful beauty into its own bosom.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from ‘At the Bay’, first published in 1922.

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

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“[…], during the day the visible world helps me, during the night it cuts me to pieces unhindered.”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated October 2nd 1911, featured in ‘Diaries’. (as translated by Joseph Kresh)

“[…], he has only as much ground as his two feet take up, only as much of a hold as his two hands encompass,”

— Frank Kafka, from a diary entry written in 1910, featured in “Diaries”. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

“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)