Photo of the Day: New York City. 1947. © Stanley Kubrick

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.” 

(Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena) © Stanley Kubrick. New York City. 1947.

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” (Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena)

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

I am dirty, Milena, infinitely dirty, this is why I scream so much about purity.

I am dirty, Milena, infinitely dirty, this is why I scream so much about purity.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

I am dirty, Milena, infinitely dirty...

I am dirty, Milena, infinitely dirty, this is why I scream so much about purity.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

(Now I’m even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours) - Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

© Alfred Eisenstaedt. Pennsylvania Station. New York. 1944.