You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
FRANZ KAFKAYou can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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The limited circle is pure.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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