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.
FRANZ KAFKAThe truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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