There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.