I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to l… - Franz Kafka

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I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.

Franz Kafka

Diaries, 1910-1923 · October 30, 1988 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.

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Alternative Names: František Kafka • Kafka

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