Quotes about Franz

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. — Franz Kafka
I need solitude for my writing — not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. — Franz Kafka
You're either reading a book or you're not. — Jonathan Franzen
I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, r — Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka’s fri — Jorge Luis Borges
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. — Franz Schubert
Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be mea — Theodore Dalrymple
Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is suppo — Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of — Franz Kafka
When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself. — Jonathan Franzen
The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: t — Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away
Life is merely terrible — I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.
She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for a — Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment. — Franz Kafka
...youth looks good in anything — unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth...
I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast. — Franz Kafka
They no longer wanted to entice anyone — all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus
The Berglunds were the super-guilty sort of liberals who needed to forgive everybody so their own good fortune could be — who lack the courage of their privilege
In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped — Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places