People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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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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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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