German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves. – Franz Kafka
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. – Franz Kafka
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. – Franz Kafka
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. – Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. – Franz Kafka
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. – Franz Kafka
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. – Franz Kafka
I am free and that is why I am lost. – Franz Kafka
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. – Franz Kafka
The meaning of life is that it stops. – Franz Kafka
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. – Franz Kafka
First impressions are always unreliable. – Franz Kafka
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost. – Franz Kafka
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more. – Franz Kafka
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. – Franz Kafka
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. – Franz Kafka
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. – Franz Kafka
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