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“It always amazes me how it is so easy to appear one way to the people around you but to live inside as someone else entirely.”
― K.L. Slater, Safe With Me

“I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished,”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“If you get a hard word from any one, keep silent, and his own conscience will accuse him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy