“Think...of the world that you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you like. Whether it is memory of your own childhood or longing for your own future - just be attentive towards what rises up inside you, and place it above everything that you notice round about.”
About This Quote
Letter to Franz Xaver Kappus (Rome, 23 December 1903).
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