I am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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 is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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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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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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