Books are a narcotic. - Franz Kafka
"Books are a narcotic."
"Books are a narcotic."
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"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."
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."
"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back."