In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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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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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Paths are made by walking
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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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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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