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Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.
Sabbath's Theater
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
The Trial
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Steppenwolf
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
The Elephant Vanishes
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
Kafka on the Shore
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
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