“It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made.”
— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry wr. c. January 1917 featured in “Diaries,”
“You’ve got to really love yourself before you can let yourself be happy. You have to believe you deserve it. Otherwise you just can’t bear the joy.”
— Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,”
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