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Franz Kafka
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rathe...
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
“Books are a narcotic.”
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unat...
“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than o...
“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about someth...
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial...
“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie....
“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.”
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought ...
“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
“L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.”
“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never se...
