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  • #1
    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #2
    Franz Kafka
    “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. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #3
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #4
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #5
    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #6
    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? 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. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #7
    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #8
    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

  • #9
    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #10
    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    Franz Kafka

  • #11
    Franz Kafka
    “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #12
    Franz Kafka
    “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #13
    Franz Kafka
    “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #14
    Franz Kafka
    “Books are a narcotic.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #15
    Franz Kafka
    “Paths are made by walking”
    Franz Kafka

  • #16
    Franz Kafka
    “It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #17
    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #18
    Franz Kafka
    “I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #19
    Franz Kafka
    “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #25
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    May Sarton

  • #26
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #27
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #28
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #29
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #30
    Roy T. Bennett
    “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart



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