I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKAEvil is whatever distracts.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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