A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAKill me, or you are a murderer.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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 in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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