“I wanted to excel in your eyes, show my strength of will, wait before writing you, first finish a document, but the room is empty, no one is minding me – it’s as if someone said: leave him alone, can’t you see how engrossed he is in his own affairs, it’s as if he had a fist in his mouth. So I only wrote half a page and am once again with you, lying on this letter like I lay next to you back then in the forest.” (16 July 1920) Letters To Milena

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. The Critic as Artist

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”  1984

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Pride and Prejudice