You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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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.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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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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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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