I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. ― Franz Kafka, quote from The Castle Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Castle
“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. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” “There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.” “I cannot make you understand.
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.” Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.” If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? “Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.” “I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.” “Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
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“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.” “All language is but a poor translation.” We’d love your help. He tells me a lot about the Castle, but from what he says, from the few details he gives me, it’s impossible to understand how it could have changed him so much. “Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.” “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.” 316 “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” “I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.” ― Franz Kafka, quote from The Castle Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. That is my belief.” So that it will make us happy, as you write?
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Castle “Of course I'm ignorant, that remains true at all events and is extremely distressing for me, but it does have the advantage that the ignorant man dares more, so I shall gladly put up with ignorance and its undoubtedly dire consequences for a …
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