All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAJust think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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