Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKAEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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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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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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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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