He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. - Franz Kafka

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."

"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."

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