My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.


The diaries of Franz Kafka (ed. Schocken, 1948)


My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and...

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and...

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and...

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and...