And 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 KafkaI 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 KafkaIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka