It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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 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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Paths are made by walking
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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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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