Franz Kafka: Frasi in inglese (pagina 10)

“Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.”

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

“It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill”

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”

“August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.”

“I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity”

“It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.”

“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”

“There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.”

“But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.”

“Like tired dogs they stand there,
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory.”

“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”

“The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.”

“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”

“Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world…”

“Like a dog!”

“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”

“"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.”