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“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead