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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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The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
