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.
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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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 am free and that is why I am lost.
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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 miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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