"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
- Franz Kafka
"I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you."
"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 friend. Kafka had dreamt him. The three of them knew it. The woman said to the frie..."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"Why are those who knew him, when they pass from the memory of a young man, sensitive and gay, to the work – novels and writings – surprised to pass into a nocturnal world, a world of cold torment, a w..."
- Maurice Blanchot
"Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly and yet still returning through the infinite exten..."
"Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment."
"I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast."
"One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party."
"I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance."