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“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

“Lost among these entirely strange people.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“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