"[...]: His Resolution Did Not Give Him Peace."

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

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

"[...], I lead a horrible synthetic life [...]."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated October 26th 1911, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

"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)

“Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.”

— Gerald Durrell, from ‘My Family and Other Animals’, originally published in 1956. 

"[...] feel sad and full of love."

Katherine Mansfield, from 'Late at Night', first published in 1917.

“‘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)