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No Ones Afraid But Me.
“No one’s afraid but me.”
— Franz Kafka, from ‘Description of a Struggle’; ‘Conversation with the Supplicant’, posthumously published by Max Brod.
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"[...], I lead a horrible synthetic life [...]."
Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated October 26th 1911, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)
“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.
‘[…], and “when things grow too long they turn into snakes.” ‘
- Giovanni Verga, as translated by Mary A. Craig, from ‘House by the Medlar-Tree’, first published in 1881.
“‘Time was’, he said casually, 'when you were not bored either by me or by my conversation’. 'You flatter yourself’.”
— Daphne du Maurier, from ‘Frenchman’s Creek’, first published in 1941. (via eligendo)