All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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 is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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The limited circle is pure.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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