It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
Franz KafkaI am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
Franz KafkaMy doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
Franz KafkaKnowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
Franz KafkaThe observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.
Franz Kafka