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She is so distinct to me, it's as though I had run my hands all over her. — Franz Kafka

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person ... — Franz Kafka

The meaning of life is that it ends. — Franz Kafka

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. — Franz Kafka

Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all. — Mike Kafka

Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people. — Franz Kafka

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret

Only the moment counts. It determines life. — Franz Kafka

Don't concern yourself about anybody. Just do what you think is right. — Franz Kafka

I am forever fettered to myself [ ... ] and that's what I must try to live with. — Franz Kafka

His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer. — Franz Kafka

There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's own novel. — Franz Kafka

You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. — Franz Kafka

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self. — Franz Kafka

There is infinite hope, but not for man. — Franz Kafka

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. — Franz Kafka

It's often better to be in chains than to be free. — Franz Kafka

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark — Franz Kafka

In the mountains our throats become free. It's a wonder we don't break into song. — Franz Kafka

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for. — Franz Kafka

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as her hands reached to the back of his father's head and she begged him to spare Gregor's life. — Franz Kafka

all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up. — Anne Lamott

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. — Franz Kafka

Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's. — Woody Allen

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it. — Franz Kafka

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning. — Mark Slouka

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world. — Franz Kafka

Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ... — Franz Kafka

Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare. — Kafka Asagiri

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death. — Franz Kafka

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. — Franz Kafka

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road. — Franz Kafka

And yet the fear! — Franz Kafka

In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world's coat. — Franz Kafka

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt. — Franz Kafka

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form. — John Kessel

[on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski. — Adam Sweeting

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins. — Milan Kundera

It's always questionable to intervene decisively in strange circumstances. — Franz Kafka

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so. — Franz Kafka

But thing in the past are like plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right? — Haruki Murakami

Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka") — William S. Wilson

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle. — Franz Kafka

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill — Franz Kafka

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush

Things change every day, Mr Nakata. With each new dawn it's not the same world as the day before. And you're not the same person you were, either. — Haruki Murakami

She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka. — Ellen Hart

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make — Franz Kafka

I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face. — Franz Kafka

You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent. — Franz Kafka

I am free and that's why I am lost — Franz Kafka

I know. It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."

Excerpt From: Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore." iBooks. — Haruki Murakami

Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious. — Haruki Murakami

Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it. — Franz Kafka

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

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream. — Franz Kafka

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent. — Franz Kafka

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. — Franz Kafka

It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance. — Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you — Franz Kafka

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. — Franz Kafka

I can never tear myself open wide enough to people to reveal everything and so frighten them away. — Franz Kafka

I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver. — Franz Kafka

A man doesn't need to fly to the sun, he need only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him. — Franz Kafka

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old. — Franz Kafka

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country! — Gerard Depardieu

The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light. — Franz Kafka

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters. — Franz Kafka

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty. — Franz Kafka

But now you must give me your hand, an agreement of this sort needs to be confirmed with a handshake. Will she shake hands with me? — Franz Kafka

Religions get lost as people do. — Franz Kafka

But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end? — Franz Kafka

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky

I passed by the brothel as though
past the house of a beloved. — Franz Kafka

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate. — Franz Kafka

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — Franz Kafka

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." Franz Kafka — Jason Harvey

Writing is a prayer. — Franz Kafka

I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer. — Franz Kafka

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil. — Franz Kafka

I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end. — Franz Kafka

Isolation is a way to know ourselves — Franz Kafka

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. — Franz Kafka

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. — Franz Kafka

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — Franz Kafka

You misinterpret everything, even the silence. — Franz Kafka

But sometimes I really felt as though the starry sky rose and fell with the gasping of his chest. — Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. — Franz Kafka

As far as I have seen, at school ... they aimed at blotting out one's individuality. — Franz Kafka

Everyone has his cross to bear. — Franz Kafka

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. — Franz Kafka

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life. — Franz Kafka

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. — Franz Kafka

He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away. — Franz Kafka

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. — Franz Kafka

I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment? — Franz Kafka