Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKAI am a cage, in search of a bird.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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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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