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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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.
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
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.
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.
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.
Having a trial like that means losing a trial like that (Sufrir un proceso es casi haberlo perdido)
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
