Milica

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover