I’m reading the lines I wrote last evening. l’ve had a restful night and feel full of courage and hope. Providence has answered my jeremiads: a very gentle reproof. I often thought I sensed this almost imperceptible irony… Ah, if we only knew how to pray!
— Georges Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
– Kafka
Notes from a Room