I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKASo eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKAThe limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKAYouth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAHold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAThe Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
FRANZ KAFKAI lack nothing. I only needed myself.
FRANZ KAFKAKill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKAAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
FRANZ KAFKAWe photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKAI miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKAYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
FRANZ KAFKAEvil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKA