Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — 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
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
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
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But fundamentally the reason for my not writing is the vague feeling that I have so much and such extremely important things… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — 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
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is another kind of writing, I only know this one, in the night, when anxiety does not let me sleep,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.” — 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
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — 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
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