More quotes by Franz Kafka

"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."
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back."
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."