“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.”
Dear Me (1977)
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“I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”
(July 1910)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
Context: I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV (1861), p. 322 https://archive.org/stream/lifemahomet00muirgoog/lifemahomet00muirgoog#page/n342/mode/1up

Where Is Jazz Going? Music Journal (1962) Reproduced in The Duke Ellington Reader, ISBN 978-0-19-509391-9.

Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)

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