There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAA non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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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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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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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 do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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