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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
