"They come out of the dark to vanish into the dark"

Desenhos de Franz Kafka.

"It is easy to recognize a concentration in me of all my forces on writing. When it became clear in my organism that writing was the most productive direction for my being to take, everything rushed in that direction and left empty all those abilities which were directed toward the joy of sex, eating, drinking, philosophical reflection and above all music...
Naturally, I did not find this purpose independently and consciously, it found itself, and is now interfered with only by the office, but that interferes with it completely...
My developement is now complete and, so far as I can see, there is nothing left to sacrifice; I need only throw my work in the office out of this complex in order to begin my real life".

Dos Diários (1910-1913) de Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924), em tradução inglesa (de Joseph Kresh para a Schocken Books de Nova Iorque, 1949, p.211).