A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKAEven if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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 am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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