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“Dear Milena,
I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“What happened to Kafka is the same as what happened to me. He withdrew, he went too far into solitude and knew he must have known, you never come back from there.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. –”
― W. H. Auden

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice