I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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 cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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