Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKAWhat am I doing here in this endless winter?
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Paths are made by walking
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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