Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. An... - Franz Kafka
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"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."
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."