In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
Franz KafkaI 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?
Franz KafkaThe truth is always an abyss. One must โ as in a swimming pool โ dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again โ laughing and fighting for breath โ to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
Franz KafkaI canโt think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world thereโs no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.
Franz Kafka