Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKAWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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