I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
Franz KafkaHiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz KafkaThe experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz KafkaIt is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz KafkaAnd I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.
Franz Kafka