He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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The 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.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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 spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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