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.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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