“I spent the afternoon pleasantly—alone, walking, lying in the grass, reading.”— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. July 1916
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“…I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins.”— Anne Carson, from “The Fall of Rome: A Traveller’s Guide,” Glass, Irony, and God
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“The goal is to never stay the same. I always want to be changing and evolving. That’s the whole point of life and the whole point of making art is to be constantly moving.”— Sufjan Stevens (via quotemadness)
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“I have known silence: the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; the implacable stony silence of a deep cave; the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotised and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun; the silence when great music ends.”— Gerald Durrell, from a letter to Lee McGeorge written c. July 1978