Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
FRANZ KAFKAEven if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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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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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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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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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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