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Letter to His Father
Franz Kafka
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
“... it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”
“there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak”
“It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable, but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.”
“In a way, I was safe writing”
“My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.”
“Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me — in sober truth a disinherited son — naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body.”
“He is afraid the shame will outlive him.”
“All I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.”
“I was convinced I would never even get through the first year at school, but I succeeded, I was even awarded a prize; but I would certainly never pass the grammar-school entrance exam, yet again I succeeded; but then I would certainly fail my year at school, but no, I did not fail, in fact I kept on succeeding. But this did not give me confidence, on the contrary, I became convinced - and your disapproving face was formal proof of this - that the more I succeeded, the worse my eventual downfall would be.”
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child-abuse, narcissism, childhood-trauma, writing, way, narcissistic-personality, shame, safe