One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others. - Elias Canetti

Ονειρεύομαι έναν άνθρωπο που ξεμαθαίνει όλες τις γλώσσες της γης, ώσπου να μην καταλαβαίνει σε καμιά χώρα αυτό που λέγεται.

For him [Kafka], the most tormenting thing about his notion of marriage must have been its ruling out the possibility of one's ever becoming so small as to be able to vanish: one has to be there.

"The trouble is, I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.' — Kafka, quoted by Canetti"