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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: ‘When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day…’ - a life lesson on the conflict between love and pain, longing and reality, and what his famous words suggest about the contradictions of relationships today

Quote of the day on love : Love, in its simplest terms, is imagined as the place where people find comfort, acceptance and companionship. But what happens when the person we love becomes the very source of our deepest emotional pain? Can love coexist with frustration, imperfection and longing, or does it become something more complicated the closer two people get?

Franz Kafka explored that contradiction in one of his most striking passages about love and relationships in his epistolary love letters to a brilliant Czech journalist, by the name of Milena Jesenská.

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