Isaak Kafka > Isaak's Quotes

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
― Cliff Fadiman

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses