Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects. - Franz Kafka

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares. Another said: I bet that is also a parable. The first said: You have won. The second said: But unfortunately only in parable. The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost.

I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity