The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

The limited circle is pure.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.