“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

“Somos um instante entre dois passos, mas esse instante contém todas as possibilidades do mundo.”

—Alusões Kafkanianas, Elisa Bartlett

“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

“Should I not be thankful despite everything?”

—Franz Kafka, Diaries

“Dormir, despertar, dormir, despertar, perra vida.”

—Kafka Franz / Diarios  /  Domingo, 19 de julio 1910 (fragmento)

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

—Franz Kafka

“Incapaz de vivir, de hablar con seres humanos. Completo ensimismamiento, un pensar exclusivamente en mí mismo. Apático, falto de ideas, angustiado. No tengo nada que decir, nunca, a nadie. ”

—Kafka / (Diarios)

“Um dia , quando eu deixar de lhe escrever, nós dois vamos saber que nunca chegaríamos tão longe um sem o outro. Viveremos cada uma na memória do outro, e isso é a eternidade, porque o tempo não existe além do amor. Sei que você chorou quando fui embora. Mas quero que cante e pense sempre que o futuro não é um problema a resolver, mas um mistério a descobrir. Há lugares no mundo que transformam as pessoas. Espero que as pessoas nunca cheguem a mudar esses lugares. Do fundo do meu coração, nessa noite estrelada, penso muito em você e invejo o que a espera.”

—Kafka e a Boneca Viajante.

“Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”

—Franz Kafka

“ We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.”

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Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak, November 8, 1903 (written at the age of 19)

Vali Myer’s favourite quote, kept on the wall in her studio.

“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

“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”

—Franz Kafka

“I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough. How could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you? ”

—Franz Kafka
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