He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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