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Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka QUOTES

Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka QUOTES

1 " What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe. "

― Franz Kafka , Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka

2 " How many words grace the pages of this book!
They are supposed to bestir memory. As if words could remember!
For words are miserable mountain climbers and miserable miners of meaning. They do not retrieve the hidden treasures from the heights or dredge them from the depths!
But there is a living commemoration that softly strokes everything worthy of remembering with its caress. And when a red-hot flame leaps forth, poignant and piercing, from such retrospective ash, and you fix your gaze upon it, as if gripped by its magic spell, then...
But how with a shaky hand and coarse writing instrument can one possibly inscribe oneself in such pure remembrance, other than to stain these white unassuming pages? "

― Franz Kafka , Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka