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"In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena-

(Artwork by Alisher Kush)

"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the Little Prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince-

(Artwork Loneliness by Salvador Dali.)

"There are times when my longing for you overwhelms me […] so often I can think of you only with teeth clenched."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice‎-

(Artwork/artist: unknown (to me)).

"I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair.-

(Artwork by Eliran Kantor.)

"And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night-

(Artwork The Smoker by Christopher Thomson.)

The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923.

(Artwork by Aleksandra Waliszewska.)

"I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena-

(Artworks by Kim Young Hun.)

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

I am once again, smitten by Charles's Dickens distinctive way of description and characterization. So minimalist, exact, and terse but powerful in effect and immediate in creating an impression on a reader. He shoots his words like spiteful arrows but with poetry.

((Artwork by Boris Sveshnikov.)

(Artwork by John Madison.)

"I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a shoestring adorable. To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves.-

(Artwork by KÄTHE KOLLWITZ.)

(From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.)

(Artwork by Lesley Oldaker.)

"Travel is very useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

(Artwork by Emile Friant.)

It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It’s a novel, simply a fictitious narrative. Littré* says so, and he's never wrong.

(Artwork by Róbert Béreny.)

And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just need to close your eyes.

(Artwork by Róbert Béreny.)

It's on the other side of life.

(Artwork by Ehsan Safavie.)

_Quote by French author Ferdinand Louis Céline from Journey To The End Of The Night_

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: among the best reads I had in 2021. Outrageously well written and heavily reflective. The book feels feels like touching one's wounds with grace. Absolutely recommendable and reread-worthy.

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

I cannot speak coherently. I cannot put up show to everyone. I am not sane. The truth is there's always blood in my mind, I have clogged pores inside my brain, but they're not strictly pores. They have pointy ends, like cutting edges, I am had in the sharp teeth of my thoughts. I cannot speak coherently but I care about you and I would listen to you through day and night.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac