All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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