For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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

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.

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?