Ashwin

“You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“How often in life he has found himself a frustrated observer of apparently impenetrable systems, watching other people participate effortlessly in structures he can find no way to enter or even understand. So often that it’s practically baseline, just normal existence for him. And this is not only due to the irrational nature of other people, and the consequent irrationality of the rules and processes they devise; it’s due to Ivan himself, his fundamental unsuitedness to life. He knows this. He feels himself to have been formed, somehow, with something other than life in mind.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Whole months have passed during which I haven’t lived, but have merely endured, … marooned in an inner stagnation of thinking and feeling.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet