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Franz Kafka quotes

Austrian Novelist, Writer July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924

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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but... Franz Kafka
That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately. Franz Kafka
Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before. Franz Kafka
As he went up he disturbed a large group of children playing on the stairs who looked at him as he stepped through their rows. "Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with. Franz Kafka
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two..."
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all..."
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strengthin remaining upright in one's memory. Franz Kafka
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace. Franz Kafka
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 Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and..."
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the..."
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last..."
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. Franz Kafka
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives... Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all..."
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. Franz Kafka

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