I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
FRANZ KAFKAIn man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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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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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.
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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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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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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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