I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
FRANZ KAFKAI am a cage, in search of a bird.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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