More quotes by Franz Kafka

"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
"The meaning of life is that it stops."
"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."
"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."