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A day in the life, October 18, 2024,Regensburg by day (photo by me)

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dailykafka:

I would have to pay too dearly for the joy of seeing you, the joy of our rst conversation, the joy of hiding my face in your lap—for all this I would have to pay too dearly, you would run away from me, no doubt run away crying, for you are kindness itself; that is how I would pay for it, but what good would the tears do me? And would I have the right to run after you? Would I, I who am devoted to you like no other, have the right to do it?ALT

— January 1, 1913 / Letters to Felice

dailykafka:

Naturally I realized, which was very easy, that I was especially badly dressed and I even had an eye for when others were well dressed, only for years my thinking didn't manage to find the cause of my miserable appearance in my clothes.ALT

— December 31, 1911 / Franz Kafka diaries

dailykafka:

New Year’s Eve. I had planned to read to Max from the diaries in the afternoon I had been looking forward to it and didn’t manage to do it.[422] We didn’t feel in harmony, I sensed in him that afternoon a calculating pettiness and haste, he was almost not my friend, but still dominated me to the extent that I saw myself through his eyes leafing uselessly through the notebooks again and again and found this leafing back and forth, which showed the same pages flying by again and again, abhorrent.ALT

— January 3, 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries