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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
I carry the bars within me.
But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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.
Having a trial like that means losing a trial like that (Sufrir un proceso es casi haberlo perdido)
You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
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.
