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.
FRANZ KAFKABy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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