Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKAEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKAThe limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKABetter to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKAWe photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKALogic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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 KAFKAShould I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
FRANZ KAFKAEvil is whatever distracts.
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 KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKAThe right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
FRANZ KAFKAA non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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 KAFKA