I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
FRANZ KAFKADon’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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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