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 (via thesmileidontwant)
(Source: tenshadesofwinter)
(via JACKET MECHANICAL: Kafka)
A Perfect Commotion: Kafka on Metaphors and Writing 
Metaphors are one among many things which make me despair of writing. Writing’s lack of independence of the world, its dependence on the maid who tends the fire, on the cat warming itself by the stove; it is even dependent on the poor old human being warming himself by the stove. All these are…
(Source: mythologyofblue)
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
—Franz Kafka
Kafka as a boy.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
—Franz Kafka
Doodles by Kafka.
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