The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.