

“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.”
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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