What am I doing here in this endless winter?
FRANZ KAFKA
FRANZ KAFKA
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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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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 KafkaFranz Kafka I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka The meaning of life is that it stops.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka First impressions are always unreliable.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Books are a narcotic.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka
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Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
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