“Paths are made by walking.”
— Franz Kafka
“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
“Evil is whatever distracts.”
“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“Most men are not wicked. They are sleepwalkers, not evil evildoers.”
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.”
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
“Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.”
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”
“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
“Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
“I lack nothing. I only needed myself.”
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
“Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”
“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”
“If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.”
“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”
“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”
“All that you are seeking is also seeking you.”
“I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.”
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
“I never wish to be easily defined.”
“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
“Isolation is a way to know ourselves.”
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
“Love is a drama of contradictions.”
“Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle – maybe there is none.”
“All language is but a poor translation.”
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”
“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”
“A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.”
“A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a “brief.””
“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
“He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.”
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