Hold the pulse.

differenceetrepetition:

He never spoke a meaningless word. Everything that came from him came in a way that became less and less forced as the years went on, a precious expression of his quite special way of looking at things — patient, life-loving, ironically considerate towards the follies of the world and, therefore, full of sad humour.

— Max Brod on Kafka

westernconsequence:

“More than consolation is: You too have weapons.”
June 12, 1923, in his diary.

This was written on my birthday June 12th. Although of course I wasn’t around in 1923, haha.

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aprill-showers:

“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”-Kafka