All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Paths are made by walking
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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The limited circle is pure.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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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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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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