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.

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Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.

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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.

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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.

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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

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You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

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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.

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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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