Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKANothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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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 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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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