It is not poverty which produces sorrow, but desire. Fragment
I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas. Typee
"But Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest corner." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
„If I know what love is, it is because of you.“ Narcissus and Goldmund
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