May 16, 2022
“I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say, ‘Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fears or restraint because the world is ending tomorrow.’ Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time or have to reckon with time. But what if we don’t have time? Or what if time as we know it is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.”
— Franz Kafka, “Letters to Milena”
