A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Please — consider me a dream.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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