A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter... - Franz Kafka

"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."