May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as wel... - Franz Kafka
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
"The meaning of life is that it stops."
"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."
"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."