Character: Kafka

The humiliated and insulted were there before, but unlike the former ones, they no longer feel like that.

Dark life defies rational analysis, ordering, or rational law. She is messy, illogical, incoherent. A terrible, destructive element, chaos, mystery is hidden behind a dark will, striving, and effort. No matter how much we know about a person, none of his actions can be generalized.

Behind the articles of the laws is hidden the crudest lawlessness, built on mutual responsibility, behind equality and justice are hidden eternal caste and hierarchy, behind the holy truth is a lie, and that in general this person, for and for whose sake we are doing everything, is the most unnecessary, interfering, subject to cruelty. suppressing creature.

In my four districts, among all other things, people, like drunks, are continuously falling from the scaffolding into cars, all the beams topple over, all the supports are cracking, all the stairs are crumbling, everything that goes up immediately falls down, and the workers themselves stumble over what is fed down. ... And the head just pops from the girls from the porcelain factories, who are continuously rolling down the steps along with a whole tower of dishes.

But I would be happy only if I could bring the world to purity, the truth of inviolability.

I consider society not bad, that is, amenable to improvement, I consider it absurd. And this is a completely different matter ... Absurd. It’s not the lack of justice that touches me at all, but something much deeper - the inability to agree with the social organization, whatever it may be.

In every person there is a Neanderthal and Goethe, and it is not yet known who is more.

Art is always a matter of the whole person. Therefore, it is basically tragic.