"The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth."
Georges Bataille
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The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.
Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
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waging a war against God all by yourself, beautiful?
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"Didn’t you wake up feeling that you had no future? Didn’t you walk around drained of all meaning, without the right to even the slightest danger? Didn’t you have to promise, a hundred times, not to die?"
Selected Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Inconceivable that the chest can expand and contract sufficiently to breathe this air, inconceivable that one can be so far from you."
Letters, 1920, Franz Kafka
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“Who among us does not spend the greater part of his life in the shadow of an event that has not yet taken place?”
Robert Musil (Diaries, tr. Payne)
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"I have seldom, very seldom crossed this borderland between loneliness and fellowship, I have even been settled there longer than in loneliness itself."
Diaries, Franz Kafka
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"How this possible life flashes before my eyes in colors of steel, with spanning rods of steel and airy darkness between!"
Diaries, Franz Kafka
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