My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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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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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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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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