A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Paths are made by walking
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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