Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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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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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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 never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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The limited circle is pure.
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