#existentialist writing

[shisasan]

—to acquire a small house with a garden outside the town. June 21, [22, and 23], 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[shisasan]

writing is actually the good part of my nature. If there is anything good about me, it is that. June 21, [22, and 23], 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[shisasan]

you would not realize how much I love you, and I should hardly be able to prove my love, even though then I might feel myself especially yours, then as now. June 21, [22, and 23], 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[shisasan]

Monday, no letter, contrary to all expectations. June 23, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[shisasan]

Dearest, how I sought refuge with you!

June 23, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[shisasan]

June 15, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[shisasan]

You have to believe what I say about myself; which is the self-knowledge of a man of 30 who for deep-seated reasons has several times been close to madness, thus reaching the limits of his existence, and so can see all of himself and what can become of him within these limits. June 21, [22, and 23], 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[shisasan]

To know nothing about your husband except that he is sitting in his room writing? And to spend the autumn and winter in this way? And by spring be ready to welcome the man, half-dead, at the door of his study, and through spring and summer watch him trying to recover in time for the autumn? Is that a possible sort of life? Maybe, maybe it is possible; nevertheless you must consider it carefully to the very last shadow of doubt. June 21, [22, and 23], 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973