Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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I 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.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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