[], I Just Dream, Which Is More Exhausting Than Wakefulness.

“[…], I just dream, which is more exhausting than wakefulness.”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated October 2nd 1911, featured in ‘Diaries’. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

“[…], he has only as much ground as his two feet take up, only as much of a hold as his two hands encompass,”

— Frank Kafka, from a diary entry written in 1910, featured in “Diaries”. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

“Victorians were stuffy prudes.”

i am writing a thesis on wuthering heights and this is all i have to show for it (x)

“And now no sound came from the sea. It breathed softly as if it would draw that tender, joyful beauty into its own bosom.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from ‘At the Bay’, first published in 1922.

“That they have done me harm out of love makes their guilt all the greater, for how much good they could have done me out of love.”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry written in 1910, featured in ‘Diaries’.(translated by Joseph Kresh)