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.
FRANZ KAFKAWe photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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’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’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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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