‘There are two cardinal sins from which all the others derive: impatience and laziness.

It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of laziness that they do not return.

Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience.

Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.’

— Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

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