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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Franz Kafka
Writing, Thinking, Darkness
Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Ottla and the Family”, Schocken

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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Thinking, Darkness, Goes On

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

Franz Kafka
Biblical, Darkness, Green
Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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