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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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.
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.
I carry the bars within me.
