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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

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Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.