Letter To My Father
Franz KafkaSözler ve Alıntılar
I couldn't pick and choose, I had to take everything.
Sayfa 19
“It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”
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“Sometimes I imagine the map of the world spread out and you stretched diagonally across it.”
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But you struck out with your words without much ado, you weren't sorry for anyone, either during or afterward, one was utterly defenseless against you.
Sayfa 17
But I want to get closer to an explanation. My desire to be married forcibly unites two seemingly contradictory things that shape my relationship with you. Marriage guarantees the highest liberation and independence. I would have a family, which I believe is the best a man can achieve – it is the best that you have achieved – and I would be your equal, my shame and your tyranny would be at an end. It would be just like a fairy story; so hard to believe. It is too much; so it can’t happen. It is as if a prisoner wanted not only to escape from his prison (which perhaps could be done) but also to convert his prison into a holiday camp for himself. If he runs away he can’t re-build it, and if he re-builds it he can’t run away. And I stand in an especially unfortunate relationship with you, for to be independent I must be nothing like you, yet marriage is the best form of independence, but if I were married I would be closer to you. To try and solve this is madness, and whenever I try I become a little more mad.
“It was not a matter of any sort of instruction you ought to have given your children, but of an exemplary life.”
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You are free and that is why you are lost.