“ Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more tim… Christopher Hitchens
“ In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.(Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt) Franz Kafka
“ İki saatlik yaşam iki sayfalık bir yazıdan daha iyidir diye emin olmayın. Yazı yoksuldur ama daha temizdir. Franz Kafka
“ When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for the sight of the bacon, all the mice in the distr… Franz Kafka
“ As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks. 'Now at least I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.' It was the time he turne… Jonathan Safran Foer
“ But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end? Franz Kafka
“ If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code. George Steiner
“ Milena lütfen bana yardım edin! Söyleyebildiklerimden daha da fazlasını anlamaya çalışın. Franz Kafka
“ I have never identified with the K in Kafka's works, by the way. Having grown up in a democracy, I have dared to imagine that I know at all times who is really in charge, what is really going on. This… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ You told me that Kafka was not a thinker, and that a "genetic" approach to his work would disclose that much of it was only a kind of very imaginative whining. That was during the period when you were… Donald Barthelme
“ No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. Eugenio Montale
“ For example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually the entire corpus of surrealism, Dada, and certain major forms of expressionism a… Peter Watson
“ Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we… Raheel Farooq
“ É bom quando nossa consciência sofre grandes ferimentos, pois isso a torna mais sensível a cada estímulo. Penso que devemos ler apenas livros que nos ferem, que nos afligem. Se o livro que estamos len… Franz Kafka
“ The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of sui… Franz Kafka
“ I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, not just the present and the future, but even the past, that thing that each man r… Franz Kafka
“ If anything in theology can be called Jewish, it is his virtual lack of any concept of 'Nature'. There is in a sense no 'Nature' in Genesis either, since the world is created man. There may, however… Günther Anders
“ Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of writing as a form of prayer: he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the onl… Ernst Pawel
