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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.
