Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka once said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.”

The real upside of realizing that life ends is coming to serious terms with the questions, "how should I spend the limited time I have left? How can I actualize my potential in this lifetime?" https://twitter.com/1WriteofPassage/status/1632805195267596299

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Kafka on Books and What Reading Does for the Human Spirit https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/06/06/kafka-on-books-and-reading/ ... I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief ... via https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1694526977372471707

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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”