It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
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| — | Nick Hornby. (via emptysthemepark) |
When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?
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| — | Franz Kafka (adapted from sostrangehere) |
We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
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| — | Franz Kafka (via cinderellainrubbershoes) |
