Quotes by Franz Kafka

I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things

#Franz Kafka

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

#Arguments

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

#Bureaucracy

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

#Cheating

Evil is whatever distracts.

#Evil

Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism...

#Heroism

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have...

#Observation

Isnt it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much?...

#Racism

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

#Individuality, #Judgement, #Originality

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward

#Writing