Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAHold 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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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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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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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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