Ettore Tito (Italian, 1859-1941)

Ettore Tito (Italian, 1859-1941)

Wide Horizon, 1910

"Brief, broken, often painful as their actual meetings had been what with his absences and interruptions [...] the effect of them on his life was immeasurable. There was a mystery about it. You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain—the actual meeting; horribly painful as often as not; yet in absence, in the most unlikely places, it would flower out, open, shed its scent, let you touch, taste, look about you, get the whole feel of it and understanding, after years of lying lost. Thus she had come to him; on board ship; in the Himalayas; suggested by the oddest things [...]. She had influenced him more than any person he had ever known."

Virginia Woolf, from 'Mrs. Dalloway', originally published in 1925.

“No one’s afraid but me.”

— Franz Kafka, from ‘Description of a Struggle’; ‘Conversation with the Supplicant’, posthumously published by Max Brod.

“I have a constant longing, […], to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful.”

— Franz Kafka, from ‘Description of a Struggle’; ‘Conversation with the Supplicant’, posthumously published by Max Brod. 

"[...]: his resolution did not give him peace."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from 'The Brothers Karamazov', first published in 1880. (as translated by Constance Garnett)

"Superstition: The evil spirits gain entry into a person who drinks out of an imperfect glass."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated October 27th 1911, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)