We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Paths are made by walking
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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