I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKAI miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKAKill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKASo eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKAIn man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
FRANZ KAFKAI think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKAEvil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKAI write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
FRANZ KAFKABy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKAWriting is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAI never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
FRANZ KAFKAIt certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
FRANZ KAFKAIt is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
FRANZ KAFKA