"Everything Immediately Gives Me Pause."

"Everything immediately gives me pause."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated July 21st 1913, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

"How immovable I have become! Formerly, if I said only one word that opposed the direction of the moment, I at once flew over to the other side, now I simply look at myself and remain as I am."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated August 11th 1912, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

The moon rises to depart by Aleah Michele

Sleeping biker, Moldavia

Anthony Suau

“I know it’s raining. There’s nothing to hurry for.”

— Colette, as translated by Antonia White, from ‘Bella-Vista’, published in 1937.

"[...], I became afraid again."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated July 21st 1913, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)