Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKAYou only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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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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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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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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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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