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.
FRANZ KAFKAWriting is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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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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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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