Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.


“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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“Because poetry reminds you
That there is no dignity
In living
You just muddle through and for what”
― Rome: Poems
That there is no dignity
In living
You just muddle through and for what”
― Rome: Poems

“But in creative fields, a degree is a prerequisite for nothing.”
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist, dass Du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle.
An Milena Jesenska (14. September 1920)”
― Letters to Milena
An Milena Jesenska (14. September 1920)”
― Letters to Milena

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