6 books
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1 voter
Slacker
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How can you attain satisfaction if you have more excuses than action?
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Kafka knew precisely what he did *not* want: he did not even consider becoming an attorney or using his linguistic gifts to earn a living. Having his afternoons free was more important to him than the prospects of bourgeois prosperity [...] He often appeared passive and overly despondent, yet he stuck to his avoidance schemes even when they posed critical challenges to his psyche. It was as though he were carrying a compass that pointed out to him nothing but the *wrong* direction
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― Kafka: Die frühen Jahre
― Kafka: Die frühen Jahre