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.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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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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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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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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