Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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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 am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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