One first signs beginning understanding wish die. life appears unbeara — Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks

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