So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down...
Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.
Querido padre:Me preguntaste una vez por qué afirmaba yo que te tengo miedo.Como de costumbre, no supe qué contestar, en parte, justamente por elmiedo que te tengo, y en parte porque en los fundamento...
Only those burdened with a common affliction understand each other. Thanks to their affliction they constitute a circle and provide each other mutual support. They glide along the inner borders of the...
One does not have to believe everything is true, one only has to believe it is necessary.
Of course I'm ignorant, that remains true at all events and is extremely distressing for me, but it does have the advantage that the ignorant man dares more, so I shall gladly put up with ignorance an...
Non spaventarti se senti le mie labbra sul collo, non volevo baciarti, è soltanto amore impacciato.
My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
Lo raro es que, cuando uno se despierta por la mañana, por lo menos en líneas generales vuelve a encontrar las cosas en el mismo estado en que estaban por la noche. Sin embargo, durante el sueño uno s...
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you su...
Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.
It seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was...
Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.
If you come to me you will be leaping into the abyss.
I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actu...
I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity
I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bone...
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.