Be it well understood, I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not. Freedom is not an activity pursued by an entity that, apart from and previous to such pursuit, is already possessed of a fixed being. To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity, not to have subscribed to a determined being, to be able to be other than what one was, to be unable to install oneself once and for all in any given being. The only attribute of the fixed, stable being in the free being is this constitutive instability. History as a System

"I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I can say is: we have to try and get rid of it." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. Sweet Thursday

"Gregor's appeals to his father were of no help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder." Metamorphosis and Other Stories