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C. P. Cavafy

“Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,…”

C. P. Cavafy

The Essential Joan Didion nytimes.com/article/joan-d…

‘James,’ ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the Triumph of Literary Fan Fiction nytimes.com/2024/04/22/boo…

„I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.“

Samuel Johnson

“The aphorism never coincides with the truth; it is either half a truth or one and a half.”
~ Karl Kraus
Born on this day, in 1874

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
* April 28, 1926

“Oft führ man gern aus seiner Haut.
Doch wie man forschend um sich schaut,
erblickt man ringsum lauter Häute,
in die zu fahren auch nicht freute.”

Eugen Roth

Karl Kraus

Der Kritiker Karl Kraus vor Gründung der „Fackel“: faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

Karl Kraus

„Der Aphorismus deckt sich nie mit der Wahrheit; er ist entweder eine halbe Wahrheit oder anderthalb.“

Karl Kraus
* 28. April 1874

Roberto Bolano

Henry Miller

Emily Dickinson

„Die Kehrseite der Reden von der Sprachlosigkeit ist die Sprache.“

Paul Celan 🖤

„Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?“

L.M. Montgomery

„..one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.'

Edith Wharton


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