"Even if Kafka did not pray — and this we do not know — he still possessed in the highest degree what..."

“Even if Kafka did not pray — and this we do not know — he still possessed in the highest degree what Malebranche called ‘the natural prayer of the soul:’ attentiveness. And in this attentiveness he included all living creatures, as saints include them in their prayers.”

- from Walter Benjamin’s “Franz Kafka” (Illuminations, 1955)