I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKAForget 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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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