Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

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