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"[...], to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, "

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated February 5th 1912, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

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i don't mind being the villain in your story because you're a clown in mine

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“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; […].”

— Jane Austen, from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1813)

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“[…], my eyes have taken to looking as if they knew something I did not know myself.”

— Colette, from ‘Claudine in Paris’ (1901), as translated by Antonia White. 

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"[...] he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; [...]."

Virginia Woolf, from 'Orlando: A Biography', first published in 1928.

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columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

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"I'm the storm and I'm the center".

Chelsea Wolfe, in 'The Liminal', from 'She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She', published in 2024.

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“Why do evil?” “So that everything might be destroyed. Ah, how nice it would be if everything were destroyed! [...]."

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

"Brigandage was an access of heroic folly and desperate savagery, a desire for wreaking death and ruin, with no hope of final victory. "If the world had only one enormous heart, I'd tear it out," said Caruso, one of the most fearful brigand chiefs."

-Carlo Levi, as translated by Frances Frenaye, from ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’, first published in 1945.

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“Behind their veils the women were like wild beasts.”

— Carlo Levi, as translated by Frances Frenaye, from ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’, first published in 1945.

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“…I thought of your body as one thinks of murder.”

— Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “Christmas Eve,”

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Wolves by Gary Wilson

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"I admitted the possibility of miracles more readily than that of real progress, "

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated January 2nd 1912, featured in 'Diaries'. (as translated by Joseph Kresh)

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"Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past."

Bram Stoker, from 'Dracula', first published in 1897.

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"Next Stop Wonderland" (1998), dir. by Brad Anderson

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"Outside, in the rainy weather intended for silent walking, I drew a deep breath of relief [...]."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated December 23rd 1911, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

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"Beautiful lonely walk [...]."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated December 8th 1911, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)