For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKAPaths are made by walking
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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