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They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives.
The Great Wall of China
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
The Trial
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.
Letters to Milena
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
Letters to Felice
Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
Letters to Milena
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
Diaries
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays