I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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
FRANZ KAFKASlept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
FRANZ KAFKAForget 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.
FRANZ KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
FRANZ KAFKAThis 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 KAFKAI am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAWe photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKAI lack nothing. I only needed myself.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKA