I Hate Victims Who Respect Their Executioners.

"There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship."

–Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]

on context: "[set during] the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut [...] Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?" (source)

'I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

supernatural is about watching sam winchester fall down again and again and he just keeps getting up but not in an inspiring way just in a way that makes you kind of sad and nauseous.

Can someone draw Kafka like this plsss

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

— December 18, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries