"Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking."
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"Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one."
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"That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity."
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"There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance."
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"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism."
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"It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?""
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"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages."
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