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“It’s bad for me, but I need to remember what bad for me is like.”

— Margaret Atwood, from ‘Cat’s Eye’, first published in 1988.

"I write this not because I did not know it, but rather because it is perhaps well to write down warnings frequently."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated November 5th 1911, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

"There's endless versions of the thing/ That keeps me driftin' back to darkness."

Louis Tomlinson, in 'Holding On To Heartache', from 'Faith In The Future', published in November 2022.

"[...], it occurred to me that my life, whose days more and more repeat themselves down to the smallest detail, resembles that punishment in which each pupil must according to his offence write down the same meaningless (in repetition, at least) sentence ten times, a hundred times or even oftener; except that in my case the punishment is given me with only this limitation: 'as many times as you can stand it'."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated January 24th 1914, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Martin Greenberg with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt)

"[...], with all my desire, my will is weak."

Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry dated February 14th 1916, featured in 'Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield' (published in 2012)