I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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 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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