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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. -Franz Kafka
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? — Angela Davis
It's okay to play with your food. - Emeril Lagasse
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. ― Dom Helder Camara
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. -Franz Kafka
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
