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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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.
Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
I carry the bars within me.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
