For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKAI need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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The limited circle is pure.
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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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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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