No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.- Franz Kafka

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.- Franz Kafka

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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.

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san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.

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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ― Franz Kafka

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You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

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There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. ― Joe L. Wheeler

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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

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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.

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