Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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The limited circle is pure.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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