We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKAIt would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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 can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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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 lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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