Franz Kafka

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

"Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)"

"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."

"Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent hu…"

"There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against y…"

"From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you."

"We too must suffer all the suffering around us. We all have not one body, but we have one way of growing, and this leads us through all anguish, whether in this or in that form. Just as the child deve…"