You say you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess, that utmost of self-revelation and surrender… that is why one can never be alone enough when one writes… why even night is not night enough.
Letter to his fiancée Felice Bauer [c 1915]
Use the link below to read about the life and work of German speaking Czech writer FRANZ KAFKA (1883–1924):
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