In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
FRANZ KAFKAIn man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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.
FRANZ KAFKAI need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKAA First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKAI am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKAThe limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKASo eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKANothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
FRANZ KAFKAJust think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
FRANZ KAFKA