Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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