Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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 KAFKAI dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
FRANZ KAFKAYou are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKABy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
FRANZ KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
FRANZ KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKAYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
FRANZ KAFKAI am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKAEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKA