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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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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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 can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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