Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the cas... - Franz Kafka

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

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

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

"Books are a narcotic."