Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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The limited circle is pure.
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