"I am free and that is why..." - Quote by Franz Kafka

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”

“Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?”

“What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?”

“I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.”

“Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.”

“In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.”

“It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.”

“People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.”