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“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”
― Franz Kafka