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.
FRANZ KAFKALove is a drama of contradictions.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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 read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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