Author of quotes: Franz Kafka. Page 3

How refreshing is a conversation with a complete fool.

If the actor, who is ordered to beat the other, in excitement under an excessive influx of feelings begins to really beat and the other screams in pain, then the person in the viewer must protest and he must intervene.

Since everyday life inevitably invades any friendship, many of its manifestations are drowned out all the time.

The memory of a small nation is no less than that of a great nation, therefore it assimilates the available material better.

Literature spreads throughout the country through its strong ties to political slogans.

Many merits of literature - the awakening of minds, the preservation of the integrity of the national consciousness, the pride and support that the nation derives from literature, the temporary but fruitful awakening of high aspirations in the younger generation - all this can be achieved even by such literature, which, due to the lack of outstanding talents has only the appearance of being widely developed.

Good direction can turn a bad piece into a wonderful theatrical experience.

Do you have connections at court? At first, I answered in the negative, somewhat embarrassedly, but then with all the more pride I declared that if I had any connections, I, according to my current notions, would be ashamed to count on them. They grinned; I felt I answered rashly. One should beware of speaking such truths out loud.

If the French were German by nature, how would the Germans then admire them.

You don't want to free yourself!

No, it is better to wait for the denouement - it should come by itself, in the natural course of things;

Maybe the simplest solution is to go ahead?

We must suffer all the suffering around us. We all have not one body, but one development, and this guides us through all the pain in one form or another.

It looked as if he wanted to shield the angel of death behind me with a wide back, and then began to slowly step aside.