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“And yet, he said, it is often our mightiest projects that most obviously betray the degree of our insecurity.”
― W. G. Sebald

“My happiness, my abilities, and every possibility of being useful in any way have always been in the literary field.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Cold darkness would follow, and it excited me a little, for reasons I still don’t know, maybe it was just the intrigue of what another season would bring or perhaps it was what actually lay in the darkness beyond.”
― Lee Hall, Open Evening

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”
― Henry James

“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
― Anne Fadiman

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda