I am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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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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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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