One is tempted to say: once he was certain of eventual failure, everything worked out for him en route as in a dream.
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on Kafka in 'Max Brod's Book on Kafka and Some of My Own Reflections' [letter to Gerhard Scholem: June 12, 1938], in Illuminations [p.143 in my Fontana 1973 edition, translated by H. Zohn with an introduction by Hannah Arendt].
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