Grace

“I'm unpunctual, because I don't feel the pains of waiting. I wait like a cow. For when I feel a purpose, even if a very uncertain one, of my momentary existence, I'm so vain in my weakness that, once this purpose has been set before me, I will gladly tolerate anything for its sake. If I were in love, what I could do then.”
― Franz Kafka

“There’s no doubt that a Sunday can never be of more use to me than a weekday, since it’s special schedule jumbled up all my habits and I need the extra free time to adjust myself halfway to this special day”
― Franz Kafka

“Inescapable duty of self-observation: If I am observed by someone else, naturally I must observe myself too, if I am observed by no one else, I must observe myself all the more closely.”
― Franz Kafka

“Our lives are like a complex musical score, Tsukuru thought. Filled with all sorts of cryptic writing, sixteenth and thirty-second notes and other strange signs.

It's next to impossible to correctly interpret these, and even if you could, and then could transpose them into the correct sounds, there's no guarantee that people would correctly understand, or appreciate, the meaning therein. No guarantee it would make people happy. Why must the workings of people's lives be so convoluted?”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage