It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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 hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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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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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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