"If the literature we are reading does..." - Quote by Franz Kafka

“Please — consider me a dream.”

“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.”

“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.”

“Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”

“The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

“Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.”

“The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.”