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.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Paths are made by walking
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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 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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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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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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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The limited circle is pure.
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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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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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