More quotes by Franz Kafka

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."
"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."