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Franz Kafka

@franzkafka_

German/Czech novelist.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.


I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.


The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens...


"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day.


this would require a night darker than any night has ever been...


I lack nothing. I only needed myself.


Art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself:


to tell the truth is to lie; thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.


Write regularly! Don't surrender!


Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.


Love is a drama of contradictions.


Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence...


someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.


there is a destination but no way there


What an effort to keep alive!


All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.


I need solitude


There is hope, but not for us.


In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.


A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.


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