I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
FRANZ KAFKAMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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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 am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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