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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“In the window I see our ghosts against the black gloss of glass. She put her arm around me, and I think how we maybe never left the business end.”
― Breece D'J Pancake, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

“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

“I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

“This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.”
― Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

“It didn't matter anyway...he wasn't made for peace, he couldn't believe in it. Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.”
― Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

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

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

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

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“You know, when one day’s like any other, they fly by so fast and it seems like the last one is really close already,’ Homer tried to explain. ‘You feel afraid of not getting anything finished. And every one of those days is full of a thousand little things to be done. Do one, take a break, and it’s time to start on the next one. You have no time or strength left for what’s really important. You think: never mind – I’ll start tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes, it’s always just one long, endless today.”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2034