I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
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 KafkaWriting is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
Franz Kafka