They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAThey’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKALast night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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 KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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 KAFKAI need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKAI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAMost men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKAI lack nothing. I only needed myself.
FRANZ KAFKAThe meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKAEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKAI have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKAFirst impressions are always unreliable.
FRANZ KAFKAI cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA