"The difficulties (which other people surely find incredible) I have in speaking to people arise from the fact that my thinking, or rather the content of my consciousness, is entirely nebulous, that I remain undisturbed by this, so far as it concerns only myself, and am even occasionally self-satisfied; yet conversation with people demands pointedness, solidity, and sustained coherence, qualities not to be found in me. No one will want to lie in clouds of mist with me, and even if someone did, I couldn’t expel the mist from my head; when two people come together it dissolves of itself and is nothing."

— Franz Kafka, Diaries 

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"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed."

— Terence McKenna 

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"Time is not a straight line but rather a labyrinth, and if you press yourself against the wall in the right place you can hear the hurried steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walk past on the other side."

— Tomas Tranströmer  

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"Our interest’s in the dangerous edge of things,
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist…"

— Robert Browning 

"…say a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages."

— Tennessee Williams, Camino Real 

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"I’m the crazy one who thinks that words reach people."

— Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters 

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"Was there no escape — anywhere — for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."

— Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

"Everyone’s living in their own little world. When I was 15 or 16 at school, I used to talk with my mates and we’d say: ‘As soon as we leave, we’ll be down in London, doing something nobody else is doing.’ Then I used to work in a factory, and I was really happy because I could daydream all day. All I had to do was push this wagon with cotton things in it up and down. But I didn’t have to think. I could think about the weekend, imagine what I was going to spend my money on, which LP I was going to buy… You can live in your own little world."

— Ian Curtis 

"We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are."

— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 

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"All I ever wanted was to know what to do."

— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity! 

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