You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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 lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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