“What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.”
― Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka
― Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka
“The truth was that life is meaningless. I had as it were lived, lived, and walked, walked, till I had come to a precipice and saw clearly that there was nothing ahead of me but destruction. It was impossible to stop, impossible to go back, and impossible to close my eyes or avoid seeing that there was nothing ahead but suffering and real death -- complete annihilation.”
― A Confession
― A Confession
“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“But I tried, though,” he says. “Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn’t I?”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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