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Franz Kafka

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don’t, then everything is over with here, once and for all. ― Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka. (Schocken October 30, 1988) Originally published 1949,

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