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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
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.
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.
