December 2011
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the new year
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
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At that moment
“At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever.”
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He feels his thoughts
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. In a man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his...
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Every day
‘Every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.’
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