Franz Kafka1883–1924Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don’t eat you anymore.
To a fish, after he became a vegetarian; as quoted in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960), p. 74- The Metamorphosis (1915), First lines
- The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948) (18 October 1921)
Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.
Conversation with Max Brod (28 February 1920), as reported in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A BiographyThe history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)- The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948) (July 1910)
