I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAThe person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAA book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKAEven the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKAEven if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAMost men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKAAll language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAWas he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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