“ What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among… Franz Kafka
“ WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect. Franz Kafka
“ There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency… Franz Kafka
“ The conclusion to be drawn from this was that this was in its way a quite different sort of fatigue from K.'s. Here it was doubtless fatigue amid happy work, something that outwardly looked like fatig… Franz Kafka
“ Seen with the terrestrially sullied eye, we are in a situation of travelers in a train that has met with an accident in a tunnel, and this at a place where the light of the beginning can no longer be… Franz Kafka
“ Once again I have told you so little, and have asked no questions, and once again I must close. But not a single answer and, even more certainly, not a single question shall be lost. There exists some… Franz Kafka
“ Ocurrió que el cerebro no pudo soportar más las preocupaciones y dolores que le habían sido impuestos. Y entonces dijo: Me doy por vencido; pero si alguien sigue interesado en mantener la unidad, que… Franz Kafka
“ O frio e o calor alternam dentro de mim com as palavras de uma frase, sonho com a expansão e a queda melodiosas. Leio frases de Goethe como se percorresse com todo o meu corpoa gama de entoações Franz Kafka
“ Nobody reaches through here, least of all with a message from one who is dead. You, however, sit at your window and dream of the message when evening comes. Franz Kafka
“ No es necesario que salgas de casa. Quédate a tu mesa y escucha. Ni siquiera escuches, espera solamente. Ni siquiera esperes, quédate completamente solo y en silencio. El mundo llegará a ti para hacer… Franz Kafka
“ Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no fami… Franz Kafka
“ Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: Does he know his sentence? No, said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interr… Franz Kafka
“ Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Franz Kafka
“ I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity. Franz Kafka
“ It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. Franz Kafka
“ In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about th… Franz Kafka
“ If you were walking across a plain, had an honest intention of walking on, and yet kept regressing, then it would be a desperate matter; but since you are scrambling up a cliff, about as steep as you… Franz Kafka
“ If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people and could get any of them out of his way just with a kick. Franz Kafka
“ I don't know,' I cried without being heard, 'I do not know, If nobody comes, then nobody comes. I've done nobody any harm, nobody's done me any harm, but nobody will help me. A pack of nobodies. Yet t… Franz Kafka
“ How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. Franz Kafka
