I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA
FRANZ KAFKA
Franz Kafka on darkness
“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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