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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Franz Kafka
Health, Duty, Ifs
Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.