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.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Paths are made by walking
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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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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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 miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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