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 KAFKAWhat if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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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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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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