“How everything can be said, how far everything, for the strangest fancies, there waits a great fire in which they perish and rise up again. . . . Only in this way can writing be done, only with such coherence, with such a complete opening out of the body and the soul.”
More from Franz Kafka
“Relationships are easier with animals than with men.”
“The dream reveals the reality, which conception lags behind. That is the horror of…”
“After all one has the right to be tired just before the end . . .”
“It was the uncertainty that was tormenting the others and excused their behavior.”