Franz Kafka

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.