The ulterior motives [Hintergedanken] with which you take Evil into yourself are not your own, but those of Evil.
— Kafka, aphorism no. 29, 1917
The ulterior motives [Hintergedanken] with which you take Evil into yourself are not your own, but those of Evil.
— Kafka, aphorism no. 29, 1917
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
– Kafka