I am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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