War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. Israel Potter
"The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not imagine what it looked like." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken — I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely. The Waves
“People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.” Eat That Frog!
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