Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Paths are made by walking
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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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