You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
Franz KafkaAnd so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if youโre desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if thereโs the least resistance, you lash yourself.
Franz KafkaThis perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.
Franz Kafka