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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova