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A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 16, 2026 07:55AM

“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

tags: belief, cell, crisis, death, prison, revelation, stuck-in-a-rut, suicide

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“Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.”
― Jogging Baboon from BoJack Horseman

tags: bojack-horseman, inspirational

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“Mich zu beobachten wäre unglaublich langweilig. Alles, was an mir spannend ist, spielt sich in meinem Kopf ab, und da kann niemand reinsehen.”
― Ursula Poznanski, Elanus

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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: communication, fear

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