If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optuži i kad je uvjeren… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“This sounds crazy, but it is so. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
