More quotes by Franz Kafka

"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
"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."
"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."
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."