“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
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“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis
“Nobody when they're rejected believes it's really for extraneous reasons. And it almost never is for extraneous reasons, because mutual attraction — which even makes sense from an evolutionary perspective — is simply the strangest reason to do anything, overriding all the contrary principles and making them fall away into nothing.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Nonetheless, it is better to feel hopeful and optimistic about one’s life on earth while engaged in the never-ending struggle to pay rent, than to feel despondent and depressed while engaged in the same non-optional struggle anyway.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
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