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Why is Kafka so relatable?

  • “I’m not quite so well as I thought. But I’m all right, really.”
  • “Alone I continue living, yet when a visitor arrives it kills me.”
  • "If only it were already autumn and winter and if only I could shut this brain off for good…"
  • "“Don’t you want to join us?” I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. “No, I don’t,” I said."
  • “Sunday, July 19; slept, awoke, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life, slept.”
  • “By the way, do you know the joys of being alone, walking alone, lying in the sun alone?”
  • “There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”
  • “What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense?”
  • "When I am alone with myself, I feel tolerably well; when I am together with the others, I am very sad."
  • "Waking up is the riskiest moment of the day."
  • "Gardening. No hope for the future."
  • “Too tired.”
jun 2 2016 ∞
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