Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
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“Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.”
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“What is gayer than believing in a household god?”
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.”
Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.”
“Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.”
“Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.”
“Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.”
Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors
“You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”
“I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.”
Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings
Source: 1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh
“Evil is the starry sky of the Good.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: Franz Kafka Vol 2
Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka
Source: Letters to Felice
Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
“My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.”
Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors
“I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.”
Source: The Metamorphosis
“One reads in order to ask questions”
Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings
“Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.”
Source: Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis
“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”
Source: Franz Kafka Vol 2
Source: The Basic Kafka
Source: Letters to Felice
“Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.”