Franz Kafka on dream
“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”
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Please — consider me a dream.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Love is a drama of contradictions.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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