One of the first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no lo longer ashamed of wanting to die; One asks to be moved from the old cell, wich one hates, to a new one, wich one will only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisioner and say: ''This man is not be locked up again, he is to come with me''.
Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo
