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“Whenever I started doing something you didn't like and you threatened me with the prospect of failure, my reverence for your opinion was so great that failure was, even if only at a later time, inevitable. I lost confidence in my own abilities. I was unsteady, doubtful. The older I got, the more material you could hold against me as proof of my worthlessness; gradually, in a certain regard, you began actually to be right.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“I, too, have certainly often offended you with words, but then I was always conscious of it, it hurt me but I couldn’t control myself, couldn’t hold the words back, I regretted it even as I said them.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“At times I imagine the map of the world laid out and you stretched across it. And all that is left for my life are the areas you don’t cover or can’t reach.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“For me you took on the enigmatic quality that all tyrants have whose rights are based on their person and not on reason. At least so it seemed to me.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father