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“Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“"Gregor converted his success at work straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the benefit of his astonished and delighted family."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Anxiety and nothing always correspond to each other. As soon as the actuality of freedom and of spirit is posited, anxiety is canceled. But what then does the nothing of anxiety signify more particularly in paganism. This is fate. Fate is a relation to spirit as external. It is the relation between spirit and something else that is not spirit and to which fate nevertheless stands in a spiritual relation. Fate may also signify exactly the opposite, because it is the unity of necessity and accidental. ... A necessity that is not conscious of itself is eo ipso the accidental in relation to the next moment. Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.”
The Concept of Anxiety • Soren Kierkegaard““Why, Milena, do you write about our common future which will never be, or is it that why you write about it? (…) Few things are certain, but one is that we’ll never live together, share an apartment, body to body, at a common table, never, not even in the same city. (…) Incidentally, Milena, you must agree when you examine yourself and me and take soundings of the “sea” between “Vienna” and “Prague” with its insurmountably high waves.” (Prague, September 1920)”
Letters To Milena • Franz Kafka