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"... only he who suffers can be the guide and healer of the suffering. But can someone truly be the intellectual master of a power to which he is himself enslaved? Can he liberate if he himself is not free?"

"By its peculiar and lively means of measurement, [music] lends an awareness, both intellectual and precious, to the flow of time. Music awakens time awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time. Music awakens—and in that sense it is moral. Art is moral, in that it awakens."

The talented young man is no blank page, but is rather a page where everything has already been written, so to speak, in appealing inks, the good with the bad. And it is the educators task explicitly to foster the true—and by appropriate practical persuasion forever to eradicate the false when it tries to emerge"

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A small taste of the 40 page long Letter to His Father:
“After all, it is not essential to fly right into the center of the sun, but it is to creep to some clean little corner on the Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little”

Brilliant author. Captivating and humorous and shocking.
In none of the 3 short stories that I've read from this collection (The Judgment, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony) does the story have a real sense of closure at the end. It almost feels as if Kafka decided to stop writing. Nevertheless the journey is worth it. Every sentence is masterfully and carefully crafted. Every detail matters.