I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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