June 2011
37 posts
“Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can jot down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different and more things than the others; after all he is dead in his own lifetime and the real survivor.”
—Franz Kafka, Diaries, entry of October 19, 1921
“The circumstances of this failure are multifarious. One is tempted to say: once he was certain of eventual failure, everything worked out for him en route as in a dream”
—Benjamin said of Kafka, which actually about himself (Briefe II, 764)
